In 1974, Frenchman Philippe Petit walked illegally on a high wire strung between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra wowed audiences in Beijing this week. Conductor Riccardo Muti tells Chen Jie what he brings to the 125-year-old CSO.
As an early afternoon rehearsal in a vast studio at the National Center for the Performing Arts gets underway, a tall, gray-haired man shows up, grabbing everyone's attention. The man, wearing a bright yellow scarf, sits down and then addresses the assembled actors.
As more Chinese names make it onto the global rich list, luxury tourism packages are proving more popular.
A record number of Chinese will spend the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday overseas, while both snow bunnies and snowbirds are flocking to domestic destinations to ring in the Year of the Monkey. Yang Feiyue reports.
Heritage of 20 Ancient Villages is an attempt to make people aware of the need to preserve some of the country's most significant rural locations. Yang Yang reports.
People behind dictionaries attracted rare media attention in 2013 after The Great Passage, a Japanese film, competed for the Academy Awards that year as a contestant in the best foreign-language film category.
An art school attempts to revive appreciation of the folk crafts that once thrived on the banks of the Yangtze. Wang Kaihao reports in Hangzhou.
From candy bars to dancing skirts and blooming flowers, Toots Zynsky's artworks evoke all kinds of imagery at Shanghai's Liuli China Museum.
He is recognized as one of China's foremost conceptual artists.
A restaurant in Beijing's Moma complex re-creates a Nordic birch forest, serving up salmon specialties and other treats from Northern Europe, Mike Peters reports.
A seething mass of larvae in the kitchen is not everyone's cup of tea, particularly for squeamish Westerners. But for two young Austrian entrepreneurs, it's a food revolution that can help save the planet.
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