Wiener Symphoniker (Vienna Symphony) is presenting for the first time in Shanghai the complete Beethoven symphonies, one to nine, which is an unprecedented project for the orchestra.
For the first time in China Fashion Week, "see now, buy now" has become a reality. In collaboration with JD.com, one of the largest business-to-consumer retailers in China, the shows on Wednesday adopted the new model, which allows the customers to buy the garments online at the same time as they are paraded on the runway.
In 2015, Furious 7, the seventh installment in the car-racing cinematic franchise The Fast and The Furious, distributed by Universal Pictures, earned more than $1.5 billion worldwide, and it remains the highest-grossing Hollywood blockbuster in the Chinese mainland with 2.4 billion yuan ($350 million) revenue from the box office.
In a small theater nestled in downtown Beijing, a stage play is performed. But this is no performance, but a press conference last week to promote a movie.
As a travel and culture buff, He Xiaobei has visited Northwest China's Gansu province, a world tourism attraction, a number of times, but he never bought too many souvenirs.
NEW ORLEANS - It's 30 days and counting until nearly 600 performers converge on the New Orleans Fair Grounds Race Course for the annual celebration of music known as Jazz Fest.
It's probably the most envied job in the world - to get free in-depth travel all over the world and sometimes with a sizable income, too.
China's web-celebrity industry is estimated to be worth 52.8 billion yuan ($7.65 billion) and is forecast to exceed 100 billion yuan in 2018, a 2016 report by Beijing-based consultancy Analysys says.
Officials from more than 250 universities, colleges and educational institutions from 29 countries and regions were in Beijing last weekend.
Three years ago, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University partnered with Peking University's Guanghua School of Management, setting up China's first English-language Executive MBA program.
"There is a Chinese saying - there are no unqualified students, but only unqualified teachers. Sometimes I feel I'm an unqualified teacher. What do you suggest, professor," a vocational education teacher from Central China's Henan province asked US education expert Walter Huber a question during his lecture in Beijing on Sunday.
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