When the mysterious people of China's Sanxingdui packed up and moved away 3,000 years ago, they left behind no written language and no indication of who they were, where they were going or why.
Art professor Sheryl Oring sits at a desk outside the Berlin Wall Memorial, clacking away at a typewriter like a secretary, with thick-rimmed glasses perched on the end of her nose.
Many artists create dozens of works a year, but conceptual artist Liang Shaoji takes his time to make his pieces. That's because he first has to spend time raising silkworms and watching them spin threads - a medium that runs throughout his art life.
How do you make an exhibition about a man who never existed?
Aconcert hall is like an instrument for an orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel said after leading the debut performance at the new music hall of the Shanghai Symphony last month with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
The Beijing Music Festival presents quality operas that are rarely seen in the capital. This year, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Richard Strauss, two of the composer's major operas, Ariadne auf Naxos (1916) and Elektra (1909), will premiere in China.
Singer-songwriter Wu Hongjin, better known as Zuoxiao Zuzhou, recently released his latest album, We Need a Troubadour, in Beijing. Wu's lyrics are obscure, and his music is considered non-mainstream.
With age, the anguish has lost its sharp edges, become less acute. Now there is only a dull ache.
At first, it seemed like we'd come to the mosque for nothing.
Peking Opera, like many other ancient art forms in China, is struggling to survive in the face of a fading fan base. It's a fact that even Li Baochun, the son of the late Peking Opera master Li Shaochun (1911-75), who himself is a star of the theater, admits.
While most people await the latest songs, Xiong Zhiyuan looks out for the old.
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