Beijing's Palace Museum launches yet another smartphone app to help younger people understand Chinese history and culture better. Wang Kaihao reports.
The National Museum of China is now showing an animated movie based on an ancient painting that depicts scenes from a Chinese emperor's grand visit to a part of his kingdom.
Singaporean star confident despite mixed reception at TV singing show, she tells Chen Nan.
Yaya DaCosta had to dig deep to reach the confidence radiated by Whitney Houston at her peak, especially on stage.
Restaurateur Sue Zhou knows every farmer who supplies her kitchen and visits their fields regularly. Mike Peters reports.
When Beijing resident Cheng Gong saw a dark-blue tablecloth with a pattern of white fish in Wuzhen, an ancient town and tourism destination in East China's Zhejiang province, he bought it without a second thought.
'If this is the first production of the opera you've seen," boasts maestro Zubin Mehta of his imminent staging of Aida, "you will be disappointed when you see any other productions anywhere in the future."
The Crucible had such a faithful revival that not only was the cast pretty much the same as that of a decade ago - the last time it was presented in China - but one has a feeling that a significant portion of the audience were repeat attendees.
While China's Nanjing and Italy's Florence are geographically distant, both are beautiful and historical travel destinations. Du Xiaoying reports.
Chinatown has long been a popular destination for tourists in Lower Manhattan. But visitors willing to explore the city's outer boroughs might consider a subway ride to neighborhoods in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, or Flushing, Queens, which are also home to large Asian populations and bustling commercial strips dotted with restaurants and shops.
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