A once chaotic riverbank is being transformed.
FUZHOU - Every Saturday, Chen Mingwei leads a group of young people to perform an ancient Chinese musical art called Nanyin at a restored traditional district dating back more than 1,000 years.
Dressed in qipao and Chinese suits, guests enter the dining room accompanied by melodious folk music - in a scene reminiscent of the old days of Shanghai of the 1930s.
There's no limitation to what gets captured by Fu Wenjun's lens, because all of his subjects will be reborn as simple images or abstract patterns for his painting-like works - a kind of conceptual photography that Fu has focused on for decades.
Chinese dancer-choreographer Wang Yabin's latest work, An Individual Soliloquy, brings to life the journey of the Buddhist monk and scholar, Kumarajiva (344-413), who is famous for translating Buddhist texts into Chinese.
After A Midsummer Night's Dream; Hamlet; King Lear and The Merchant of Venice, the National Centre for the Performing Arts is to stage another of William Shakespeare's plays, The Tempest, which will make its debut at the NCPA from Aug 9 to 15.
While some of her peers spend most of their time taking care of their grandchildren and watching television, 63-year-old Wang Huizhen has opted to revisit something that she left behind decades ago - study.
Wang Shuzhen may already be 77 years old, but the professor of food and health is still very much active in the academic scene despite having retired 14 years ago.
For those Chinese who want to find their cultural roots, there's nothing better than classical traditional texts.
Wearing an umbrella hat and a dark blue outdoor jacket, Lian Da sits quietly on a tiny folding chair in the overgrown wilderness of Shanxi province. With a black pen and a whiteboard, he gazes at the relic in front of him for hours and sketches its remaining glory.
"I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow." The words taken from an inscription on the tomb of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh, Tutankhamen, provide the opening line to the original English version of the most recent book by American archaeologist Robert L. Kelly.
Outspokenness is typical of Jin Xing, who says: "I am born for the stage. And it's impossible to have another person like me, who is good at dancing, acting and hosting TV shows."
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