Chinese bamboo flute player Tang Junqiao will team up her students from the Tang Junqiao Bamboo Flute Ensemble of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music to do two performances on Oct 15 at Beijing's Poly Theater.
NAIROBI - Kenya's Elius Magu has nurtured a passion for arts since childhood and his one-bedroom house located in a low-income Nairobi suburb attests to that fact.
NAIROBI - When Jackson Wang made a majestic stride across a hotel lobby in Kenya's capital Nairobi recently, local patrons cast adoring glances at the elegantly dressed Chinese artist whose ability to mimic the late American singer, Michael Jackson, is beyond comprehension.
There are countless well-preserved ancient buildings in Huangshan, formerly known as Huizhou, in Anhui province, and one of their prominent features is the exquisite brick carvings above their doorways.
Tiangong Kaiwu, published in 1637, is regarded as one of the first encyclopedias recording handcraft production in China. Its chapter on ink calls the Hui ink stick, made by artisans in Huizhou, now known as Huangshan, in Anhui province, the best of its kind.
Mention traditional Chinese painting and many people will think of the ink-wash type, which mainly uses ink and water to depict objects of different shades, from black to gray and white.
About 40 years ago, Warren Mok watched his first opera - Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's masterpiece, La Boheme - while he was studying financial accounting at the University of Hawaii.
What lies beneath has intrigued Chen Hong since childhood and he has devoted his life to exploring the mysteries of the seas, especially the "lungs of the oceans", coral reefs.
For the past 45 years, since Beijing and Tokyo normalized relations, Yasuhiro Tase, a leading Japanese media professional, has always sought to bolster the often-fraught ties.
Four national training centers and research quarters have been set up across the country to fulfill the need for police dogs. The four centers focus on different fields involved in canine training, such as dog disease control and prevention, information management and police dog training research, and are responsible for operational guidance of dogs from certain areas and provinces in China.
Luxembourg, the second-largest financial hub of the European Union, welcomes Chinese investors and expects China to open up its markets further and carry out more economic reforms, its finance minister said.
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