In 1944, an overturned boat near Chongqing brought a premature end to the ambition of Tang Yihe, an artist and educator. He was on board, traveling to attend a conference of the China national fine arts council, before falling victim to the Yangtze River at the age of 39. He had directed the oil painting department of the Wuchang Fine Art School where he graduated, and he would have been elected a standing member of the council at the meeting.
A mountain gorilla beats its chest in the pounding rain. Another member of its troop sits silently in a bamboo thicket.
NAIROBI - Kenya's tourism marketers have laid out plans to regard Africa as a key regional market to grow its tourism business, a senior official says.
At the ongoing Beijing Music Festival - an annual event featuring world-class musicians and concerts, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra led by conductor Tan Lihua gave a performance called Embracing the New Era: Chinese Music Concert, to mark the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up, at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in the capital.
When humans are forced to settle down on Mars, might we at last start to think about the way we live on Earth? With this question in mind, architect Li Hu has designed a suitcase-like house to explore how people could have minimalistic lifestyle that only meets the essential requirements for survival.
Composer Ye Xiaogang says 1978 was a special year.
In 1980, Chinese singer Li Guyi performed a song, entitled Homeland Love, a mellow love ballad written by Ma Jinghua and Zhang Peiji, which made the then 36-year-old singer of the Central Symphony Orchestra - now known as China National Symphony Orchestra - into a household name in China.
Audiences might still remember the impressive opera production of Giacomo Puccini's Turandot - conducted under the baton of Zubin Mehta and directed by Zhang Yimou - that was performed at Beijing's historical Imperial Ancestral Temple, which is located just outside the Forbidden City, in September 1998.
As grand structures go, the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge has an unenviable job competing for public attention, and perhaps even affection, with the likes of the Great Wall of China and the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai.
CHICAGO - That is a trip he will never forget. In August 1975, as a member of the US first Congressional delegation to China, Adlai Ewing Stevenson III visited China for the first time.
A new exhibition at Beijing's Capital Museum offers visitors a glimpse into royal lifestyle during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
Norwegian violinist Eldbjorg Hemsing vividly recalls her first meeting with renowned Chinese composer and conductor Tan Dun, saying it was full of good musical energy.
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