Music lovers in China may know him as a pianist, but Xu Zhong will be taking on a new role as the principal conductor of the Fondazione Arena di Verona in January.
An ancient state in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi province, has recently begun to reveal its full face.
As visitors flock to Hainan province to seek warmth and clean air as the winter cold envelops much of China, restaurants there dish up local gourmet treats.
The Hotelier Awards China, a ceremony that honors professionals of the hotel industry, held its second annual event on Dec 10 at Four Seasons Hotel, Beijing.
The World Association of Chinese Cuisine, a trade organization for China's catering industry, has changed its name to the World Federation of the Chinese Catering Industry to highlight its focus on promoting Chinese cuisine around the world.
Boxing Day is a holiday that Brits (and ex-colonials) celebrated in the old days by giving servants and tradesmen gifts, known as "Christmas boxes", on Dec 26. Since one doesn't really have servants to reward these days, now one goes shopping - for up to a week in much of the United Kingdom. In Shanghai, however, you can savor the occasion with this Boxing Day sandwich, a beautifully crafted presentation of honey ham and tomato marmalade with potato bread. It's one of the set courses offered all month (so no need to wait until Saturday to enjoy it) at The Commune Social. The complete menu includes scallop ceviche, hot smoked salmon, torched mackerel and cauliflower, cider-brined turkey leg with barbecue cranberry sauce, and mushrooms on toast with bacon jam, plus assorted desserts. Three courses cost 258 yuan ($40); four courses are 298 yuan; and five courses are 338 yuan.
For Shivani Dugar and other start-up painters like her in New York, it's a big deal to have a solo exhibition in Beijing, capital of the world's second-largest economy and an important art market.
When he doesn't work in his studio, Tong Zhengang, 56, prefers hanging out and having a drink with his dozen buddies: All are Beijing-based artists like him, and most were born in the 1960s.
Hong Kong auction houses are looking for novel ways to keep their sales buoyant in the face of an economic slowdown - from creating boozy bidding parties to selling items from outer space.
There's a fine line between imprinting creative works with unique personality and screaming for attention. Feng Tang just crossed it, when he translated Tagore's tranquil verse into a vulgar selfie of hormone saturated innuendo.
China will become one of the world's biggest music markets by 2020, a forecast that prompted a recent consensus among three major international record companies - Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music - as well as QQ Music, a music-service platform under the Chinese Internet giant, Tencent.
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