Zhang Yimou says the disappointing US performance of the biggest budget China-US coproduction to date, The Great Wall, may have been down to a weak story, but he hopes other filmmakers won't be put off from attempting such ambitious Hollywood-Chinese collaboration.
In 1983, when Guan Xia was learning to compose at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, he and four classmates traveled to the Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture in Southwest China's Yunnan province to seek inspiration from the folk music of the Hani and Yi ethnic groups.
Chinese dancer-choreographer Wang Yabin is expressive onstage but off it she is a soft-spoken person.
SANTA FE, New Mexico - A techno-infused opera about the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has earned the financial backing of opera companies in San Francisco and Seattle, ensuring the musical meditation on the iconic entrepreneur will travel to the United States' high-tech enclave.
'Do you want to marry a Chinese woman? Then, you have to be prepared," Thomas Derksen says, speaking a mix of fluent Mandarin and Shanghai dialect. The German wears wigs, applies makeup and plays the roles of his Shanghainese wife and in-laws in the three-minute video in which he humorously talks about his marriage and being a son-in-law to a Chinese family.
Summer is the season for entrepreneurship, as millions of recent graduates hit the job market.
Shanghai-based Tongji University is seeking innovative ways to boost its offerings. The university's Party chief Yang Xianjin says that Tongji is also looking for ways to improve its talent cultivation and courses.
The inaugural conference of the Music Education Alliance Across the Silk Road, initiated and organized by the Central Conservatory of Music, was held in Beijing over May 5-7.
It might not quite be summer, but it's definitely feeling warmish outside. That's delightful at the weekend, but trickier the other five days of the week, should you have an office dress code to follow.
SAN JOSE, California - Get ready for the "it's a bird, it's a plane, no ... it's a flying car" memes.
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina - If Amazon's new Echo Look, a service that promises in-your-bedroom wardrobe analysis via an internet-connected camera, doesn't seem unsettling to you, a professor at the University of North Carolina may convince you otherwise.
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