Last Sunday I watched five movies (yes, five!) on the couch. At the end of the day, I was a tad square-eyed but ... satisfied. Calm. Rested. I slept great that night and had a buzzingly productive Monday. And I know it was largely due to my movie marathon.
"Humans and machines are evolving toward two directions - humans getting more mechanized while machines getting more humanized."
A group of Chinese composers, all faculty members of the Central Conservatory of Music, will give a concert at Alice Tully Hall of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York on Jan 27, in a growing trend of contemporary classical musicians from China playing in the West.
Next to the busy markets and office buildings of Beijing's Chaoyangmen district, there is a place of tranquility, with a history dating back more than half a millennium, which can almost be overlooked amid the hectic pace of life in the city's downtown.
When Yang Fengyi took the post of director of the Northern Kunqu Opera Theater in 2009, she was anxious.
The Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe will celebrate 40 years of its founding with a series of performances at the Shanghai Grand Theater over Feb 23-28.
Guangzhou is home to a heavenly host of divinities housed in terrific temples.
I've always resisted the idea of taking a guided tour on my annual visits to Japan. My interests are pretty niche and I know Tokyo well enough that friends there often have trouble suggesting new places for me to visit.
For Huang and his wife, it was to be either a holiday like no other, one that would change the course of their lives, or one for which they would have little to show as they returned home but photos and a few souvenirs.
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