After two hours of working on her makeup and costumes and several phone calls, Chen Ailian walks out of her room. A glimpse of the dance floor angers her because she notices some footprints. "Ready to start? Let's start!" she says in a firm voice after the floor is wiped clean. Standing in the middle of the stage in front of a camera, the legendary Chinese dancer-choreographer, who is 78, shows no sign of slowing down.
LUOYANG, Henan - Before the middle of the 10th century, the city of Luoyang was already a bustling metropolis - for half of its then 3,000-year-old history it had been the capital of some 13 dynasties.
When it comes to movies, alien invaders love the United States. But things may be changing thanks to China's booming movie market. The recent lineup released by Tencent Pictures - the movie arm of Chinese tech giant Tencent Inc - has added four new movies to the expanding list of domestic sci-fi titles, which are either set in China or feature Chinese heroes. Among the four is Shanghai Fortress, adapted from the 2006 best-selling novel Once Upon a Time in Shanghai, and it is attracting attention thanks to its star-studded cast.
Despite the overwhelming numbers of Japanese troops invading Baoshan, a county in Shanghai, in September 1937, the Kuomintang commander Yao Ziqing led his 600 soldiers into battle. When Yao was killed in the fighting on Sept 7 that year, he was only 28 years old.
The China Women's Film Festival opened in Beijing on Saturday, with dozens of female filmmakers from home and abroad prepared to screen their work over the next few days at different venues in the city, including on university campuses. In its fifth year, the annual event aims to provide a platform for independent cinema on women. This year's festival is showing at least 45 foreign and Chinese films under seven sections covering topics such as violence and discrimination against women, the LGBT community, female innovators and gender stereotypes. A special "Chinese competition" section has 15 entries, of which, two are from Hong Kong and the rest from the mainland.
Film actress He Saifei has been associated with Yueju Opera, one of China's most prominent art forms with a history of more than a century.
BEVERLY HILLS, California - Jeanne Tripplehorn has been a professional actress for more than 25 years. But as a new member of the film academy, she's almost as giddy as her first day on set.
Ana Jovanovic learned about China from books she read in high school in the 1990s in Serbia. During one summer break back then, she found the novel Imperial Woman by the celebrated late author Pearl S. Buck.
One of them is launching a major international art fair - touted as the first of its kind in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province.
This summer, most of Amanda Chinembiri's freshmen schoolmates at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University went home for the holidays.
Fu Cexiang has an answer for people who think playing video games is "just a way to kill time".
In the suburbs of Beijing, a 32-year-old engineer creates the kind of larger-than-life, shape-shifting robots that most have only seen in Transformers movies.
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