For Chinese trumpeter Li Xiaochuan and his band, going to the Koktebel Jazz Party, held in Crimea over Aug 26-28, was a lot of drama.
This year is the 400th anniversary of the deaths of literary giants William Shakespeare and ancient China's playwright Tang Xianzu. An exhibition to mark their contributions to world literature is being held across 26 venues of the Chinese Cultural Center in different countries through December.
Jersey Boys, the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical based on the Four Seasons' career and harmonies, has finally hit a sour note - it's closing in January after 11 years.
Last Thursday, hundreds of fans were anxiously waiting to get into a media event of L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties in Beijing.
Many Chinese movie buffs' first reaction upon hearing that the Japanese movie Parasyte will be screened across the Chinese mainland was: "Really?"
Prophecy abounds at the Toronto International Film Festival. Pundits pronounce Oscar guarantees. Buzz, the most cherished commodity at the festival, is measured and speculated on like stock prices.
Hailed as "the king of opera" globally, Placido Domingo has given more than 3,800 performances of 147 roles, in addition to having conducted more than 500 performances and made hundreds of audio and video recordings and films over the past 50 years.
As this year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Long March, a special concert will be staged to pay homage to the Red Army.
A dance drama, which puts the ancient Maritime Silk Road in focus, was staged in Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian province, on Aug 30.
Hangzhou's Xianghu Lake is often called West Lake's "sister".
It's not just a safari. It's a master class in the untamed world, a behind-the-scenes education with experts who are the talking Google gods of wildlife.
Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 Nobel laureate of literature, toured Shanghai, Beijing and Suzhou in August.
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