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.
Her camera has captured villagers who live the centuries-old lifestyle of hunter-gatherers in the shadow of modern banks, traditional opera scenes in which ancestral ghosts appear as human figures that dispel evil and bring auspicious influence, and Shamans telling fortunes in a muddy Guizhou street.
Men with their wives slung over their shoulders, bounded over log hurdles and charged through a muddy pit on a mountainside in Maine on Saturday, as hundreds of spectators cheered them on at the North American Wife Carrying Championship.
Private fitness instructor Hou Jun, 25, is already famous although he has been in his field for just three years. Entrepreneurs, high-ranking company officials and show business people, including A-list actresses Fan Bingbing and Zhang Ziyi, and actors Feng Shaofeng and Zheng Kai, and singer Wang Feng are among his clients.
A small production has taken the public by surprise after it was chosen as China's official entry to the competition of the 2015 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
He may be among the world's best beloved bears, but he also is one of the most endangered in the new movie Paddington, in which Nicole Kidman co-stars as a taxidermist looking to complete her collection of rare animals.
Oscar nominations are three months away, but Birdman is already generating rave reviews and awards buzz for actor Michael Keaton, who delivers the performance of his career 20 years after Batman.
Dearest, based on China's missing children, is a box-office hit despite its grim subject, Liu Wei reports.
Actor Hugh Grant, who became the poster boy for the charming British fop in romantic comedies such as Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, is delighted not to be part of Hollywood anymore.
Going by recent developments in China, a star's career could end if the person is found to be involved in drugs or with prostitutes.
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