Dr Zhang Xiaoyang, 53, is a man on a mission as he paces briskly through the corridors of Tirunesh Beijing General Hospital (TBGH) on the southern outskirts of this city on a hot August day.
More than 10,000 kilometers from the grasslands of Inner Mongolia autonomous region, nine young Chinese musicians sing about their happy, carefree lives at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Anda Union is made up of seven men and two women, all from Mongolian ethnic minority. The band is considered one of the most successful Chinese ethnic minority bands to have gone global.
Renowned Chinese film director Zhang Yimou, who's also known for directing the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games, made the overseas premiere of his new conceptual performance in Edinburgh Fringe Festival last Saturday and Sunday.
'Wow! Incredible technique!" says Lang Lang as he stands up from his seat and walks to the boy who has just finished playing Liszt's La Campanella.
The Mandarin version of the The Sound of Music will return to Beijing from Aug 18 to Sept 3, after its first tour of the country last year.
Sipping sangria, nibbling tapas and watching the hustle and bustle of the Chinese capital to soundtracks spun by a DJ - indeed, the newly opened Migas Mercado offers a taste of Spain in Beijing.
Mid-Autumn Festival isn't until Oct 4, but mooncake merchants are already battling for customers.
Chinese designer Sun Xiaoxi wins Red Dot award for book design. Xing Yi reports.
Chinese flocked in large numbers to bookstores in Beijing on Saturday, despite the heavy rain.
BERLIN-"It is as if The Song of the Nibelungs in the form of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings had come upon us; Game of Thrones is kindergarten when compared with it."
It is a new way of storytelling in cinema, and three films from the Chinese mainland are set to compete for awards at the Venice festival. Xing Yi reports.
If Hollywood hears a wolf at the door, it may well be Chinese director-producer-star turned wolf-pack leader, Wu Jing, whose recent effort, Wolf Warrior II, has gobbled up the competition to become a genuine cultural phenomenon, not only in China but also for Hollywood.
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