BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN - As Brunei and China have enhanced trade and investment cooperation in recent years, more and more Chinese come to visit the country that has a long history of business and cultural exchanges with China.
Food might be one of the last barriers to fully immerse oneself in a foreign culture, and for British gourmet and writer Fuchsia Dunlop, that frontier for Westerners when it comes to Chinese food is kou gan (mouthfeel), or texture. "Cross it, and you're really inside."
When, on May 16, 2013, Li Ruowen uploaded her first cooking video on YouTube - a video of her making white asparagus wrapped with Italian ham - she had little inkling how it would shape her life. Since then her hobby has grown into a lucrative career.
For most critics in the West, the romance comedy Crazy Rich Asians is a watershed hit that could change the way Asian faces are perceived in Hollywood.
Chopsticks was a five-minute, noncommercial advertisement produced by a Shanghai-based creative agency and aired on China Central Television (CCTV) during Spring Festival in 2014.
For her third birthday, Chelsea Guo received a CD and a DVD of the film, The Sound of Music, as a gift from a friend of her mother. It wasn't long before the little girl became infatuated with the 1965 film - which was adapted from the 1959 Broadway musical of the same title - watching the DVD every day and listening to the CD in her parents' car whenever they would have to drive somewhere. She even played out the roles and sang the songs for fun at home.
It took Hong Kong star Nicholas Tse Ting-fung 18 years to prove his versatility by being a singer, song-writer and an actor.
When Jiang Bin, a producer with iQiyi - one of China's three biggest video-streaming platforms - decided to make Idol Hits, he had little to refer to from the country's existing online variety shows.
Zhai Miaomiao clearly remembers the date when she began to fancy Wang Yuan, a member of the Chinese boy band, TFBoys.
As he stepped down as the president of the Juilliard School, the New York-based performing arts conservatory, in June, Joseph Polisi, the school's sixth and longest-serving president, has fulfilled his vision of the school's global expansion - the Tianjin Juilliard School.
SAN FRANCISCO - The China Academy of Art and the San Francisco Art Institute, both prestigious art schools in their respective countries, are currently holding an exhibition and a symposium to explore the role of art in the modern technological age.
XI'AN - Celebrated conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Berlin Philharmonic kicked off an international music festival in Northwest China's Shaanxi province recently.
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