THE HAGUE - A book about a Dutch boy meeting Dutch diplomat and Sinologist Robert van Gulik (1910-67) who introduced Judge Dee of the Tang Dynasty to the West, and a documentary on this versatile all-rounder, were presented on last Tuesday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the passing away of the legendary scholar. A limited edition of The Hall Where Clarity is Revered - first published in Dutch in the 1990s, now translated into Chinese and printed on silk-screen and assembled by hand - was presented at the commemoration event held at the Chinese Cultural Center in The Hague.
Illustrator Yu Rong tells a Chinese story by incorporating paper-cutting with international artistic styles in the book, I Am Hua Mulan.
Hot issues have a considerable influence on Chinese reading choices, according to the newly released lists of bestsellers by Amazon China.
RUNGIS, France - If you're holidaying in France this festive season, you'll have to pay more for delicacies like foie gras and snails after a turbulent year for agricultural production that saw duck flocks decimated by bird flu and butter shortages in supermarkets.
This may be the first time that Nanjing salted duck met Jaillance Rose, a sparkling wine, on a dinner table - and the soft and salty duck blended perfectly with the low tannin content of the wine.
Show Kuan Yeow had been a professor at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore for a long time before he joined a Chinese wastewater-treatment company as a researcher a few years ago.
FRANKFURT, Germany - Can performing Beethoven symphonies together help employees team up on projects at work, too? Some companies in Germany and Asia seem to think so.
Director Feng Xiaogang - who started the concept of Chinese New Year hits - is celebrating a new triumph. His latest film Youth, a bittersweet tale that chronicles the lives of several members of a Chinese military art troupe from the 1970s to the 1990s, has raked in 480 million yuan ($73 million) since being released on Dec 15, topping the country's box-office charts.
Wearing a Zhongshan suit, the modern Chinese tunic, actor Liu Jin looks directly into the camera and says something inspiring for a little girl named Sihan.
David J. Fraher, president and CEO of Arts Midwest, a nonprofit arts organization from the United States, arrived at the Guangzhou Opera House on a recent morning.
The China Association of Performing Arts Committee has launched a branch that will be dedicated to traditional Chinese opera.
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