Life Culture

Birth of fantastic folk tradition

Flamenco is a 200-year-old folk dance from Southern Spain. It is individualistic, yet structured.

Leaping out of the pop star shadows

The Hong Kong Culture Series - Dance Collection introduces Beijing audiences to Hong Kong's modern dance world, an artistic form often overshadowed by its pop cultures.

View to a thrill

Cristina Hoyos, the Andalusian priestess of flamenco, speaks with passion. "You can't understand flamenco, it is something you feel." Now the 61-year-old legendary artist tours Beijing with the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucia and will make audiences feel the rhythmic and passionate flamenco through Viaje Al Sur (Voyage to the South).

Master storyteller has something to say

How many parents tell folk stories to their children before bedtime? Certainly not as many as decades ago. One possible reason may be that parents today know fewer folk tales than their fathers and grandfathers. Many also think these tales are superstitious and want to keep their children away from such "silly talk".

Life Expat

Chinese etiquette tips for business and socializing

Be on time.

Mind your manners

There's an old Chinese saying: Lishang Wanglai (Courtesy demands reciprocity). This is a basic rule for expats living anywhere in the world and is a sound way to build friendships. However "being nice" is only one of the myriad customs used in China's complex society, according to the International Business Center (IBC), a US-based non-profit organization.

Special Supplement: Spanish royal couple inaugurate art exhibition of "la Caixa"

King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofa of Spain, along with Isidro Fain, president of Spanish banking giant "la Caixa" and its Foundation, and the general director of its Welfare Projects, Jos F. de Conrado, inaugurated an exhibition of works from the "la Caixa" Foundation Collection of Contemporary Art yesterday, at the Beijing Imperial City Art Museum in China.

Special Supplement: Artworks propose symbolic perception of reality

"la Caixa" Welfare Projects launched the "la Caixa" Foundation Collection of Contemporary Art in 1985 and to date has assembled a wealth of key national and international artworks of the past three decades.

Sports

Shorts-dropping pranks no more, say Brazil pair

PUERTO ORDAZ, Venezuela: Brazilian pair Diego and Robinho promised on Tuesday that pranks such as their notorious shorts-dropping episode are now over.