ISTANBUL - Okan Ozkan, a Turkish tour guide, returns to the classroom to get himself ready for the expected arrival of one million Chinese tourists in 2018. Last Thursday, he was learning Chinese with nine other tour guides in a narrow building of the Turkish-Chinese Cultural Association situated at central Istanbul. As was in old school days, they were learning the Chinese language word by word after their teacher.
The Diaries of John Rabe, the first original opera produced by the Jiangsu Center for the Performing Arts premiered in Nanjing on Dec 13, the memorial day commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre.
Listening to Qu Wanting's music is like reading her diaries, which are emotional, honest and heartfelt.
It would appear that having a beauty regime is no longer exclusive to those of the fairer sex - even men are getting into the game.
Before the Wei Kingdom (220-265) in China, the concept of men's beauty had little to do with outward appearances. Instead it was largely focused on the Confucian philosophy of being a junzi, a man who is noble and honorable.
BERLIN - Despite latest defeats and problems with the new ball used in international competition, China's table tennis stars are still the world's leading fraction, said German Timo Boll.
LOS ANGELES - With flowers in their hands, hundreds of people waited in line at noon on Nov 12 to pay tribute to late US physician Robert O. Wilson in the United Methodist Church in Arcadia, the western US state of California.
When I arrived in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, I found the city quite different from what I had expected - a place full of historical sites revealing the exotic flavors of the Middle East.
As a national symbol of France, the Palace of Versailles on the outskirts of Paris, also known as the Chateau de Versailles, is actively extending its global horizons in a bid to enhance its international standing.
In 1994, Ye Bei, a freshman from the China Conservatory of Music, planned to work her way through college.
For years, China's music industry was seen as chaotic with record companies seemingly unable to come up with digital business models which could fight online piracy.
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