Visitors from around the world are drawn to New York City's High Line, an elevated park built on defunct railroad tracks transformed into an urban sanctuary of flowers, grasses and trees.
Awar of words has erupted over the Chops tick Brothers, after the Chinese pop duo performed at the American Music Awards last month in Los Angeles - and won the international song award for their hit, Little Apple.
More than three decades of reform and opening-up have led to China's rapid development, including in some key sectors of the copyright industry that covers art, radio, film and television. A long debate on the issue continued during the recent China Broadcast Right Seminar held in Beijing, where participants called for legal protection for recording artists.
Theater lovers are rushing from one venue to another as the 6th Theatre Olympics shifts into high gear in Beijing. While thunderous applause is filling the houses, people are emerging scratching their heads and raising sharp questions in conversations after the shows.
"This festival was initially organized by the Central Academy of Drama and the Chinese Research Association of Dramatic Arts. It was taken over by the government due to lack of funding. It would have been better and more professional if the government had let the original organizers take the helm even though it's not bad as it is."
The piano is seen by many parents as a ticket to a brighter future.
Qiu Chenyun, a 30-year-old marketing employee with a State-owned company in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, describes the days when she was learning to play the piano as "dark and miserable".
China's crucible for talent has produced some of today's most feted young classical pianists.
A growing number of families in China are able to afford a piano and lessons for their children. In 2013, the ownership of pianos had grown to three pianos for every 100 urban households, according to a report by marketresearchreports.biz, and the number is expected to rise to four by 2020. But there is still a big gap between China and developed countries (20 to 30 pianos per 100 households) in terms of piano ownership, which means there is still great potential for growth, the report concluded.
When I was 6 years old, I learned to play the nursery rhyme Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star that Mozart wrote when he was 5.
While the APEC summit in Beijing ended almost two weeks ago, the style statement surrounding it still lingers. Both online and offline communities in China have since talked about the clothes that President Xi Jinping, foreign leaders and their spouses wore to various events there.
At 52, Wu Qiong has established herself as one of the country's most famous actresses in Huangmei Opera. While many of her generation's actors have abandoned the "outdated and old" art form - that originated from Huangmei county, Hubei province, in the 18th century and also became popular in neighboring Anhui and Jiangxi provinces - she likes to push the edges of traditional theater and reach out to audiences with her modern sensibilities.
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