China's illustrious Shaoxing Opera stars get together for the first time to stage Butterfly Lovers at National Center for the Performing Arts. The top 10 artists from eight genres and 13 troupes first created this edition of the story in 2008, combining elements of MIDI and high-tech lighting with traditional Shaoxing Opera art.
When Chris Verrill, a media and e-marketing professional from San Francisco, held the very first shows of The Christmas Carol, in December 2006 in Beijing's Canadian International School auditorium, there were just about 10 people in the audience.
When Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Wit, directed by Kris Chung, opens at Beijing's Penghao theater on Thursday, a shriveled, shaven-headed terminally-ill patient with huge lanceolate eyes will take center stage.
It is known for having the most number of people, but not many are aware that China is also facing its first peak in a graying population.
Due to the increasing average age and fewer children per family, China is confronted with a rapid demographic change.
Rui Chenggang interviews world leaders for State broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) but made headlines himself when he campaigned to get US-based coffee chain Starbucks evicted from the Forbidden City.
China's "little emperors" are used to being the center of attention.
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