There's a secret about children that Steven Spielberg, Melissa Mathison and Roald Dahl have always known - that no matter how innocent, kids are as capable of understanding darkness as adults, and sometimes even more so. It's not that it's some completely unacknowledged truth, but it is one that rarely seems to permeate what we consider "children's entertainment" in any real way. It just makes adults too uncomfortable. It's also the reason why the under-10 set flocks to Dahl.
Summer is for music and outings. And Shanghai's annual Music in the Summer Air festival from July 2 to 15 will see performances by artists from around the world paying tribute to the "Swinging Sixties".
The Long March, a two-year tactical retreat of the Red Army to evade Kuomintang forces starting in 1934, will be staged as an opera at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing from July 1 to 6.
The Brexit has reignited Beijinger Zhang Ying's longing to return to the United Kingdom.
The antique map is gorgeous, though it's showing a little wear since it was engraved in 1778. I'd stopped in the Portobello Road market stall hoping to find an old Chinese map. Instead, I was grasping a poster-size work of cartography headlined "Boheme, Silesie, Moravie" - the now-Czech homeland of my late grandfather.
Abilingual book of Michael Jackson's poetry and essays has been published in China - days after new controversy has exploded surrounding reports of the star's disturbing pornography collection.
Israeli author Amos Oz has long been a favored Nobel Prize contender and has received dozens of literary prizes around the world - including the 21 University Students International Literary Award, which he received in Beijing last week.
Self-made billionaire and art collector Wang Zhongjun, 56, is an ambitious man. The chairman of Huayi Brothers Media aims to profit not only from China's flourishing entertainment industry but also by trading in art.
In an area in the far northwest of China are earthen walls and temple ruins spread over an area of about 1.45 square kilometers. Locals call this site situated in a desert "the broken city".
The press invitation promised "the most gorgeous hotpot in Beijing". That was an ambitious boast, considering that the luminous Caocao restaurant, from a popular Taiwan franchise, was also just opening on the other side of Sanlitun Soho.
It's hard to imagine sitting down for a hotpot dinner - or a fresh cooked lobster - totally naked. Of course, many people wouldn't dream of going to dinner, especially in a public restaurant, without being dressed.
Rob Cunningham may be the most ubiquitous chef in Beijing - popping up at culinary events at other restaurants when he's not hosting one of his own. Now leaving Beijing after several years at Feast - he's heading for a new gig in Jakarta next week - he will be remembered by many fans as the king of Pavlova, the scrumptious pile of meringue and fruit that he's made a signature dessert, first at Capital M and lately at the East hotel restaurant here. Over the years he's crafted many variations for different seasons, or to match the theme of one of his Carnivore Club dinners. We can't imagine that his successor will take it off the menu, but just in case ...
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