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."
NEW YORK - In the new documentary The Quest of Alain Ducasse, the esteemed French chef steps off a small plane in the middle of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. As he stands pondering the vast emptiness, a motorcycle suddenly appears, as if out of nowhere, carrying two men. The bemused chef chuckles: "There are customers everywhere."
The China Social Sciences Press recently turned 40. To mark the event, 300 scholars and publishing professionals from around the world gathered in Beijing to celebrate.
Four years after her A Dream of Red Mansions piano concerto, renowned Malaysian pianist Claudia Yang recently debuted her latest work, Twelve Chinese Folk Fantasies for Piano and Orchestra, a series of modern adaptations and compositions of Chinese folk songs.
The curtain has dropped on the first SCO Film Festival, an event that gathered together talent from the 12 Shanghai Cooperation Organization member and observer states to boost cultural exchanges and cinematic cooperation.
China's rapidly expanding film industry is regularly setting new records. As of June 16, the country's box-office takings surpassed 30 billion yuan ($4.6 billion) 35 days earlier than last year, according to the live tracker Maoyan.
Most online writers face a similar struggle when it comes to seeing their work being adapted for the screen - the uncompromising "battle" between imagination and reality, whether it's the practicalities of filming, or budget constraints.
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