"Either very profitable terms indeed; or absolute author's veto on objectionable features or alterations."
Over the last two decades, ink-brush artist Zhou Zunsheng has frequently journeyed between his home in Beijing and the source of his inspiration, the Xinjiang Ugyur autonomous region. Every year, the 59-year-old stays there for two to six months.
Chinese artists have sought to blend a Chinese temperament into their oil paintings since the genre arrived in the country a century ago.
Agatha Christie's famous fictional detective, Hercule Poirot, was once asked why he wasn't busy looking for footprints and other clues at a murder scene.
Diplomats, business types and longtime Beijing residents may find a familiar face grinning back from a bottle of red wine this month.
Although he didn't attend a fine-arts college, Wang Mai, 45, was one of the youngest artists who participated in the emergence of Chinese contemporary art in the early 1990s.
KATHMANDU - A weeklong exhibition on China's intangible culture is running in Kathmandu, offering Nepalese insight into China's rich and abundant history and culture.
HANOI - On a summer afternoon in Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, the audience watches colorful puppets in the form of a farmer, fish, fox or dragon plowing a rice field, swimming, climbing a tree or puffing fire and smoke on the surface of water with no sign of handlers or equipment.
Everyone loves birthday gifts, and Chinese automaker Qoros Automotive is receiving a big one as it turns 10 years old this year.
Tesla's team developing self-driving car capabilities lost a top engineer hired less than six months ago from Apple, adding to a spate of executive shakeups at tech companies competing to put fully autonomous vehicles on the road.
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