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Fan Hua gets 'lost in translation' at top French book fair

[2015-11-04 07:56]

Last year, Jin Yucheng's Fan Hua (Blooming flowers) was taken to Salon Du Livre, France's largest book fair, along with other contemporary Chinese literary works such as Bi Feiyu's Subei Youth "Don Quixote".

For dali fans

[2015-11-03 08:51]

Dozens of works by the Spanish master will be shown in Shanghai this week. The pieces, insured for more than 400 million yuan, include the oil painting Napoleon's Nose. Deng Zhangyu reports.

Longtime friends conserve relics together

[2015-11-03 08:51]

A major exhibition on the Mogao Grottoes is to be held at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles in May 2016.

Cod mania

[2015-11-03 08:51]

Ever since China's President Xi lunched at a pub with the UK's PM Cameron, fish and chips have gone viral on the Internet. Mike Peters checks out the buzz in Beijing.

Ningxia uncorks unprecedented wine contest

[2015-11-03 08:51]

Now that the grape harvest season has come to an end, 48 winemakers from 18 nations are awaiting the next phase of the Ningxia Wine Challenge, in which they are competing for cash prizes in China's most high-profile wine region. The post-fermentation analysis is now beginning for wines that will be ready to drink in 2017.

Eat Beat

[2015-11-03 08:51]

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Matter of space

[2015-11-03 08:51]

A group of contemporary Indian artists is in Beijing to show works on urbanization, Lin Qi reports.

New York's Met puts calligraphy on show

[2015-11-03 08:51]

"Most Americans can't really understand the Chinese characters and calligraphy, but they are attracted by their beauty and magic," Joseph Scheier-Dolberg, assistant curator in the department of Asian art in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, said on Friday.

Auctions see reviving interest in classical art

[2015-11-03 08:51]

Famed painter and scholar Dong Qichang's landscape, titled Thatched Cottage amid Sparse Forest, will go under the hammer at China Guardian Auctions' autumn sales on Nov 15.

Rice capades

[2015-11-02 08:37]

When fried rice is served not to appease hunger but to create a record, food waste is almost unavoidable. With sights just on world records, people will go for such titles, forgetting their real meaning.

Prepare to listen to the hand drum and horse-head fiddle

[2015-11-02 08:37]

In a spacious room of a five-star hotel in downtown Beijing, people are walking around, watching the streams of cars on Chang'an Avenue flow beneath a warm afternoon sun, and waiting. Suddenly, the sound of a hand drum erupts and the five members of the band Haya appear in the room.

Culture fest with a twist

[2015-11-02 08:37]

A wide range of displays, from cultural to cutting edge, marks this year's exhibition. Sun Ye looks up the stalls that celebrate art forms of dozens of countries and China's many provinces.

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