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."
No other season seems more lucrative than summer when it comes to attracting student audiences to cinemas. Latest statistics from the China Film Distribution and Screening Association show that 14, or 22 percent, of the 63 new titles for the July-August vacation, are animated films, with a majority of them produced by Chinese companies.
.A literal Hollywood giant and one of the most familiar faces to audiences in China, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has already dominated the country's big screens twice in the first half of this year.
With a staggering budget of 750 million yuan ($113.5 million) and an international crew of 1,800 industry professionals gathered from 35 countries, the upcoming fantasy epic Asura is now the most hotly anticipated blockbuster of China's competitive summer season.
In the 16-square-meter room, with the closed window locking all the cigarette smoke inside, Zhao Yingzi, the 25-year-old Hangzhou native, barely moved her body - except her fingers and arms - for five hours.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263 Registration Number: 20100000002731 
Raymond Zhou
Op Rana
Berlin Fang
Zhu Yuan
Huang Xiangyang
Chen Weihua
