Tap Dance King Liang Yi from the documentary Burning Dreams directed by Wayne Peng has inspired the passion of many young dancers. Peng is a famous advertising director who came from Taiwan Province and now works in Shanghai. His artful film is about a dance school in Shanghai where the students are encouraged to realize their dreams despite the harsh reality.
SHANGHAI: At 55, Chen Xiaoxia, team leader of Silver-Hair Art Troupe, believes that tap dancing has rejuvenated her life. "I have confidence that I can lead my team members to find more joy in the rhythm of tap dance. Listening to the rhythm of tap dance will make a lot of people happier," Chen says.
Nine-year-old Zhang Chen charges into the battlefield, carrying a laser gun almost as tall as him. His mission is to locate a bomb placed by terrorists, and defuse it.
Role-playing live games, or Alternative Reality Games (ARG), appeared years ago in Europe and the United States. It takes the substance of everyday life and weaves it into narratives that give it additional meaning, depth and interaction. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, everyone in the country can access these narratives through every available medium - at home, in the office, on the phones; in words, in images or in sound.
Our campus neighborhood boasts several dried-up ponds and a century ago they were quite a sight. Our university has no plans to restore the scenery, so our senior neighbors are practicing agricultural skills there.
The handmade signs in the shapes of apples and hearts bobbed above the heads of the beaming grade school children lining the driveway of Qi Yi primary school, in Beijing's Haidian District.
After five years of cordial nodding and smiling, the downstairs couple in our apartment block invited us to their brightly lit sitting room one recent evening. Before that, we had only talked about two topics: the possible leaking problem in our bathroom, and the part-time cleaners we both hire.
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