Much of Yu Zuokun's perception of the world stems from a childhood spent watching Peking Opera shows at an outdoor theater, an experience that has heavily influenced his artistic expression since Yu began his career as a sculptor a decade ago.
A decade after the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, the Flowers of Life sculptures, made from the ashes of twin girls who died in the earthquake, finally lie peacefully at the Memorial Museum of epicenter Yingxiu.
A century ago, Michel Comte's grandfather crossed the Alps and returned with stunning images of shining glaciers with white snow covering the mountain ranges. However, while following in his grandfather's footsteps, Comte found the glaciers to be more of a dull gray and much smaller than those photographed by his predecessor.
The Tibet autonomous region has extended a package of favorable travel policies it introduced earlier this year to boost winter tourism, in a bid to ride the wave of success that saw its seasonal visitor numbers soar.
The Shanghai Chinese Orchestra celebrated the opening of its new performance season with a concert of music from Northwest China at the Shanghai Grand Theatre on May 5.
In 2001, when composer Yin Qing read the news about the start of the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, he was very excited and wanted to do a song on the subject.
BUCHAREST - Applause and loud cheering greeted the finale of a third encore as the audience in Bucharest's Athenaeum Hall showed their appreciation for the April 23 performance by the Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra.
This past May Day holiday, I found myself hurtling through the undergrowth in bamboo-blanketed Anji county, Zhejiang province, triple-checking my seat belt as our bus sped along increasingly narrower dirt roads.
Jinzhou has launched six travel routes with such themes as culture, coastline and education.
When Ye Liqin visited the village of Pingtian for the first time four years ago, the welcoming committee that greeted her was decidedly hostile - a group of barking dogs.
Over the past four years Xu Tiantian has traveled between Beijing and Songyang in Zhejiang province numerous times. In fact she has become so attached to the city that she says she regards it as her child.
Jonathan Haskel says the rise in property values in China's cities is more down to the rise of the intangible economy than the attraction of tangible assets such as apartments and houses.
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