When rock musician Su Yang traveled from Beijing to Yanchi in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region last winter, he listened to Liu Shikai playing the sanxian (a three-stringed plucked instrument) and singing old folk songs.
The magical supergroup The Illusionists is coming back to Broadway for a new holiday show - this time bringing a time machine.
The lobster in front of me is big and virile. It looks a bit like Donald Trump: Orange. Cranky. Confident - and determined to have the last word.
The apricots look suspiciously green to guests touring the orchard at the Brickyard Retreat, but to head chef Randhir Singh they look perfect.
As one of the earliest foreign businesspeople to venture into China after its opening-up, 68-year-old Belgian business strategist Gilbert van Kerckhove has not only witnessed, but also played an important part in, the country's tremendous transformation over the years.
Where is the least likely place that criminals would dare to go in the world? Probably China's Shenzhen. Why? Because it only needs a few seconds to locate a criminal among millions of people after the city's surveillance cameras were embedded with intelligent chips in November.
A week after Song of the Phoenix opened, it garnered a paltry 3 million yuan ($454,000) in box-office takings, barely enough to cover the marketing cost. Now, a month after its May 6 opening, it has collected 85 million yuan, a rare feat for an art-house film. What happened in between was an eye-popping act by its 63-year-old producer, a man whom I have known for a while, and whom I talked to recently in a post-screening dialogue.
At 77, Ian McKellen surprised a 900-strong Shanghai audience with his excellent memory in a recent master talk in Shanghai Theater Academy.
It's no surprise: Ang Lee has become the biggest sensation of the ongoing 19th Shanghai International Film Festival.
The Chinese film and TV industry wants better "foreign voices" on overseas screens.
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