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Zheng creates buzz abroad even before home debut

[2015-11-19 07:53]

Director Zheng Xiaolong's upcoming epic series The Legend of Mi Yue has garnered attention from overseas markets even before its Chinese mainland debut.

Festival gives fans taste of modern German history

[2015-11-19 07:53]

When you speak of Germany, most Chinese probably think of beer and soccer, but an ongoing film festival, now in its third edition, is trying to change that.

Trophy cats

[2015-11-19 07:53]

Cui Yujian, a Beijing resident, carefully handed his 4-month-old British shorthair cat to a judge at a recent cat show in the city.

Young look to Chinese way of life for product designs

[2015-11-19 07:53]

The stampede in Shanghai on last New Year's Eve killed 36 people and injured nearly 50, but the tragedy gave Zheng Difei the idea to design a stack-up stretcher.

'Mini-pigs' make Mexico new home

[2015-11-19 07:53]

The pet at the end of the leash is tiny, chubby and wears a little sweater as it is paraded down a Mexico City street by its owner.

Recounting a chapter

[2015-11-18 07:58]

During the 1970s and 1980s, Guanghwa Company, a bookstore in London's Chinatown, received parcels twice a month from mail trains arriving at King's Cross Station.

Using Chinese characters to promote culture through imagery

[2015-11-18 07:58]

Hanzi (Chinese characters) are not difficult to understand and learn if studied from the aesthetic perspective of pictographs and as a carrier of Chinese culture, says Yu Dan, a spokeswoman for traditional Chinese culture and professor at Beijing Normal University.

New eyes on pandas

[2015-11-18 07:58]

For the past 32 years, forest ranger Li Xifeng's daily routine is patrolling the deep woods of Heihe National Forest Park in Zhouzhi county, Shaanxi province, to protect the habitat of wild giant pandas and prevent forest fires.

Snub-nosed monkeys better with more trees

[2015-11-18 07:58]

Snub-nosed monkeys are known to be genteel and affable - even when they make a tooth-baring face, they are really showing fondness.

Peking Opera by the book

[2015-11-18 07:58]

Early last year, when Shan Jixiang, director of the Palace Museum, suggested establishing a center for researching Chinese traditional opera to Sun Ping and invited her to be in charge of the project, the veteran Peking Opera artist and scholar was very excited.

Veteran actors bring a Russian comedy to life

[2015-11-18 07:58]

When Russian comedy film Office Romance was screened in China three decades ago, it was popular throughout the country. Now, a Chinese play adapted from the movie is set to wow Chinese audiences again.

Art beat

[2015-11-18 07:58]

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