Major production companies and established artists from Broadway and the West End have announced they will be collaborating on a slew of musical coproduction projects in China.
Chinese cinemagoers will soon have diverse offerings that go beyond films.
This April, the National Ballet of China premiered its first performance aimed at children, titled The Nine-Colored Deer.
The Yunfeng Tunpu Culture Tourism Area is an ancient military outpost that today attracts armies of tourists.
A multimedia project highlighting China's culture, history and development kicked off in Beijing in June.
CANBERRA - David McAllister with the Australian Ballet has always been looking forward to trips to China, in spite of the change of his roles. He had been dancing on the stage, while this time, the artistic director will bring his own work there.
LOS ANGELES - "The best films are not just about unique individuals, they are metaphors for the society and time in which they are made," asserts Xie Fei, one of China's eminent film directors in an exclusive interview with Xinhua last Saturday.
After China's reform and opening-up began in the late 1970s, the following decade saw a burst of literary activity, with today's influential writers shaping their ideas and words back then.
The Mobile Library of the City of Athens came to life this summer, promising to fill as many neighborhoods as possible with books for children and adults.
LONDON - The English version of Death Notice, a popular Chinese crime-fiction work by contemporary writer Zhou Haohui, has just been published in Britain.
"A free-range chicken, marinated for three hours with rosemary, minced garlic, honey, pepper and rock salt, and then roasted in an oven at 140 C for 16 minutes and 100 C for five more minutes ... I couldn't wait to rip off a leg and eat it while it was still hot - it's just too delicious."
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