After three years with a prestigious mentor, a young drama enthusiast is staging Western plays translated into Chinese, Chen Nan reports.
Eighteen years ago, while traveling to Frankfurt, Taiwan-based musician Huang Chia-Wei came across a group of German finger-style guitarists at a musical-instrument exhibition. He was struck by the distinctive sounds made by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached to fingers, which spanned a broad range of genres, including folk, jazz and blues, and intrigued by the guitarists' techniques, like finger picking, strumming and harmonics. As soon as he returned home, Huang began digging into finger-style guitar playing.
The outbreak of the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome in South Korea - the largest such spread of the viral infection outside of Saudi Arabia - is raising concerns among Chinese tourists.
Hong Kong said on Tuesday it would issue a red alert against non-essential travel to South Korea where eight new cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome were reported, bringing the total to 95 with seven fatalities.
The recent capsizing of Eastern Star, with 456 people on board, will not affect cruise ship tourism in China in the long term, but may have an immediate fallout, an analyst says.
With Japan's tourist numbers and hotel prices on the rise thanks to a weaker yen, developers are getting creative with a new niche line in stylish but cheap accommodation in bunks, cabins and pods of all shapes and sizes.
Humans have always been fascinated with the underwater world and the mysterious deep that's often the setting of adventures in books and films.
Beijing has a vast number of hotels and restaurants, but Courtyard Bistro at the Red Wall Garden Hotel stands out for titillating both the eyes and the palate with its Chinese style.
The world's first automated kitchen made its public debut in May at the Consumer Science Show in Shanghai.
Chinese pianist Zhang Haochen recently collaborated with the Norddeutscher Rundfunk orchestra, playing Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A Minor, under the baton of German conductor Thomas Hengelbrock.
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