Placido Domingo will star in a return to Los Angeles of Woody Allen's first opera production, Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, the opera house said on Tuesday.
In many imaginations - and in the movies - the great trade routes from East to West are dotted with caravanserais, way stations built about every 30 kilometers, or the distance a loaded camel could cover in a day.
When you are a Westerner and you have lived for a decade in China, you're bound to have many stories to tell.
Wine expert Chantal Chi, 47, has toured around the world in the pursuit of knowledge of wines and the areas where they are produced.
Society needs to be mobilized to better preserve China's written history, according to a national meeting in Beijing last week.
It is an understatement to say Chinese poetry is not in its golden age. The few poets who caught public attention in the past decade are seen as jokes by most - for the sheer lack of poetic sense.
I was born in the small village of Schoengrabern near Holladbrunn city in lower Austria, and studied philosophy and theology in college. I got interested in Eastern philosophy and considered going to China, Japan or India to learn more about ancient wisdom.
Emmy-winning actor and reputed hothead Alec Baldwin is putting his actions into words. A memoir about his life, the ups and downs of his career and his struggles with addiction is due out next year, publisher HarperCollins said on Friday.
Tourism between China and Russia is about to accelerate since a 7,000-kilometer, 1.5 trillion yuan ($245 billion) high-speed rail under consideration will cut travel time between Beijing and Moscow from six days to two, the Beijing Information Office says.
Forget five-star hotels. Four-sided courtyards offer travelers to Beijing the chance to truly live up the local culture.
When New Zealand film icon Peter Jackson brought the final installment of his Hobbit trilogy - The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - to China last week, he told a news conference in Beijing that his homeland is the perfect place to portray Middle Earth.
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