The Expat Show Shanghai, a platform for expatriates to find information, products and services, returns for its 12th edition from Sept 21 to 23 at the Shanghai Exhibition Center.
American explorer and film director Laurence Brahm's courtyard nestles in a narrow hutong (alley) lined with lush greenery in a corner of downtown Beijing. A knock on his red wooden gate guarded by a pair of lion statues brings the tall, thin filmmaker out. He has a warm smile and is wearing a black jacket and jeans.
Like the gypsies of folklore, they arrived as if out of the blue, bringing with them color, laughter, music and, perhaps most importantly, their skills.
Over the past decade China has become a demonstration ground for international architects to explore ideas and technologies.
BOSTON - Erhu, guzheng, suona, pipa, and more - Chinese traditional music instruments which appear mysterious to many Americans, caused quite a stir in late August at the Sanders Theater at Harvard University in the United States.
Theater practitioners from China and abroad joined a symposium on youth drama education at the 2018 Artistic Gathering of ASSITEJ, a Denmark-based international association of theater for children and young people, held in Beijing recently in tandem with the eighth China Children's Theatre Festival.
SHANGHAI - Cat owner Xiao Wanqing packs a big suitcase with imported cat food and toys at an international pet fair in Shanghai, and instructs a courier to deliver it to her home.
CHANGCHUN - Military aviation fans now have the chance to visit air force barracks of the People's Liberation Army in Changchun, the capital of Northeast China's Jilin province, to see air shows and equipment during major festivals. The air force will showcase skydiving, aerobatic flights, model planes and real combat simulations for visitors.
LONDON - Dressed in bright yellow uniforms, 14 children from England's Fibbersley Park Academy perform Baduanjin ("eight-section brocade"), one of the most common forms of Chinese qigong exercise, together with nearly 300 adults at the opening ceremony of the third European Health Qigong Games.
Students majoring in foreign languages at 22 Chinese universities gathered in Shanghai for the Friendly Contest for Multilingual Simultaneous Interpretation on Sept 4, in a bid to prepare future translation professionals with real-life situations and experiences.
More than 200 undergraduates from top universities in the United Kingdom, including Oxford and Cambridge, recently took part in a three-week Study China tour.
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