China's film industry should give greater support to indie films to keep them from being drowned by bigbudget commercial films as the domestic market grows fast. This is a common appeal made most recently by Chinese director Jia Zhangke and senior executives of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Even for Jean Jacques Annaud, known for his animal films The Bear and Two Brothers, the making of Wolf Totem has been a real challenge.
A "femaleoriented film", a love story like David Lean's Doctor Zhivago, a Chinese version of Titanic - these taglines have all been attributed to a veteran filmmaker's surprising new opus.
Shanghai Pride is preparing for its biggest annual bash in June, four months after the largest gay club in Asia, 1,500-capacity Icon, opened in the city around Valentine's Day. The former French Concession also recently hosted an LGBT speed dating event, indicating an increasingly open gay subculture in the city.
A photo exhibition in Beijing marks the 95th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement, an important cultural and political movement in modern China. The images were taken by American photographer Sidney D. Gamble (1890-1968), grandson of James Gamble, one of the co-founders of Proctor & Gamble.
On April 25, 1953, a seminal article was published in Nature magazine detailing the distinct double-helix structure of DNA, allowing humans to have a first look at how living organisms are developed from their genetic blueprint.
As club sandwiches go, this undoubtedly is the biggest one in the solar system.
Scientists recently found new evidence that ancient Chinese, living 300,000 to 400,000 years ago, would pick their teeth.
Moris Topaz finally had a good sleep on the flight from New York to China recently. The 63-year-old usually sleeps only three hours a day but that's enough, he says, to give him plenty of energy for his work.
The New Photo Studio, which is located in Tianjin's downtown, attracts many young people who want to take wedding photos and fashion photo albums every day. However, on Saturday afternoon, a few old ladies walk into the studio.
Sitting in the lobby of a five-star hotel in Wangfujing, the iconic pedestrian street in the capital, 65-year-old Lawrence Wolfe is watching the stream of cars on Chang'an Avenue flow past at 8:15 am beneath the early-morning sun. Like many foreign visitors in Beijing, Wolfe carries his camera and is ready to head to the Great Wall for a second time.
Halfway through French Spirit, the opening program of the 14th Meet in Beijing Arts Festival, lights dimmed and two pianos were moved to center stage at the National Center for the Performing Arts.
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