Nearly 60 years ago, Gong Quanzhen made a very bold decision.
Yu Dong, the founder of China's leading studio, the Bona Film Group, says he couldn't sleep the night he saw a TV news report about 13 Chinese sailors who were shot and killed on the Mekong River in 2011.
Deng Chao set a goal for himself 15 years ago: to open a theater.
Despite more than 50 shows in Beijing, Cavalia is still going strong.
Love, power, money and thwarted dreams - all set to an Afrobeat. Those are the essential ingredients of Wakaa! The Musical, a Nigerian stage production set to hit London later this month.
From revamping their appearance to government support, bookshops owners are trying everything to survive. Mei Jia reports.
Hustlen Hazel is a novel that straddles turbulent times in modern Chinese history - World War II and the "cultural revolution" (1966-76). And countries - China and the United States. Yet it is a simple story, as all it talks about is how we should cherish peace.
Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman have compiled hundreds of interviews to create The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: The First 25 Years.
As the temperature rises to 35 C in the early afternoon, Liu Yuesheng places another finished pet basket on the pile in his home, which is almost touching the ceiling. And despite sweat streaming down his face, he is working on weaving a willow cushion.
Although Spanish master architect Antoni Gaudi never visited China, oriental elements are widely seen in buildings designed by the genius from Barcelona, experts said at the 2nd Gaudi World Congress in Shanghai in June.
A star Beijing chef brings the foods of his native land to Chinese readers in a luminous new cookbook, Mike Peters reports.
In the past nine years, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art has evolved into a landmark venue in Beijing's 798 art district.
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