India has sought more space in China's entertainment industry, in a sign of growing confidence in its cinematic exports to the country.
"Wow!" my 6-year-old exclaimed as we opened our yurt's door.
Chinese travel-information website Qyer and Quriosity Studio recently co-released the short-video series, Encounter, about the daily lives of locals in 11 countries.
When it comes to makeup Mao Geping is a legend. His magical technique transformed actress Liu Xiaoqing into the historical figure, Wu Zetian, in 1994. In the TV drama, Wu - played by Liu, then 40 - morphed from 15 to 82.
"I like rain, someone says that love comes from raindrops." It is a line that wedding dress designer Lan Yu remembers from a Korean film called Over the Rainbow.
Adam Williams believes it is wrong to impose the values of today on historical figures of the past.
It is a spur-of-the-moment trip. A man receives an uninvited visit to his reclusive cabin from an attractive woman, who, much like himself, has also lost her career and loved ones. Within hours, they decide to drive together, and the destination is all the way south. So begins the story of the German novel Widerfahrnis (Encounter).
A grand entrance ceremony takes place at Xi'an's Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) city walls every day, as the ancient capital of China opens its spectacularly preserved South Gate to the masses with great pomp and pageantry, as it would have done for VIPs in the olden days.
The dilapidated buildings in the villages of North China's Shanxi province appear to have no future. But to Tang Dahua, 48, they are "dying friends", and he wants to save them.
In recent years, traditional Chinese medicine has been gaining in popularity around the world, and nowhere more than in Southeast Asia, where many Chinese continue to use these ancient remedies.
On April 20, the Basel-based ensemble, La Morra, will present a concert at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, with music by Latin poet-composer Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz, a name not very familiar to Chinese audiences.
A recent survey shows that the Mao Dun Literature Prize, the Lu Xun Literature Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature are among the book awards most easily recognized by Chinese netizens.
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