ROME - Celebrated Chinese director Zhang Yimou will receive the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker award at this year's Venice Film Festival, organizers announced recently.
The little robotic waiter wheels up to the table, raises its glass lid to reveal a steaming plate of local Shanghai-style crayfish and announces in low, mechanical tones, "Enjoy your meal."
BEIJING - The market value of China's artificial intelligence industry reached 23.7 billion yuan (about $3.5 billion) in 2017, with the growth rate expected to reach 75 percent in 2018, according to a recent report.
It is difficult to define which genre he belongs to - scifi, historical, adventure, fantasy, or even others. All these elements are usually found intertwined throughout his works.
In June 2017, one year after they graduated from the Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, Hubei province, the pop duo Landlord's Cats - comprising two 24-year-old female members: singer-songwriter Wang Xinyi and guitarist Wu Peiling - released a song online called Next Stop, Chashanliu, which was inspired by their campus life.
In 1995, then 12-year-old Wang Guan received a parting gift from his music teacher when he graduated from primary school. It was a cassette called Now That's What I Call Music (Asia series), which was a compilation album comprising 16 English pop songs.
It's Friday, and 500 primary school and junior high school students sit in a hall in Xianghe county, North China's Hebei province, each using a pencil to fill in the empty squares of a grid that is divided into nine blocks of nine squares each.
BEIJING - David Feng is not a train worker nor a frequent business traveler. However, in the first five months of 2018, he made 166 train journeys, traveling 53,000 kilometers across China.
XIAMEN - To Strauss' Radetzky March, Marianna Donner, a Russian ballet teacher, instructs three girls at the Banlam Grand Theater in Xiamen, East China's Fujian province.
It can become a lifelong battle for some when they are born in families of eminent artists and have to not just take the legacies forward but also make their own mark.
The Beijing Summer Olympic Games in 2008 arguably pushed Chinese sports to a pinnacle - and while the legacy of those Games lives on, the contribution to the country's sporting success by overseas Chinese is equally unforgettable.
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