Blooming blossoms, luxuriant bamboos and varieties of wood throughout the past millennium have set a festive atmosphere in the Palace Museum in Beijing, China's imperial palace from 1420 to 1911. It is also known as the Forbidden City and the display is celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.
For those who missed last year's widely-acclaimed retrospective exhibition at the art museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, a new book offers a second chance to appreciate the work of Xu Beihong.
Wang Wei scours the internet in search of the best dining and shopping places when developing travel plans.
BANGKOK - Thailand's capital, Bangkok, edged out Paris and London as the world's most-popular city to visit, according to a recent survey - welcome news for Thailand after worries over a drop in foreign arrivals.
CAPE TOWN - South Africa has emerged as one of the highest-ranked countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to the latest Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report.
Xin Ying has been busy lately. As the principal dancer of the Martha Graham Dance Company, she gave seven performances at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, the longest-running international dance festival in the United States, from Aug 14 to 17, and then as a choreographer, she worked with dancers of the American Ballet Theatre in New York on a new piece. She flew back to China for two weeks earlier this month, traveling between Sichuan province and Beijing.
In 2003, Chinese composer Chen Qigang wrote an orchestral piece based on a folk tune popular in northern China.
They are often depicted drifting through the air, descending from the heavens among wisps of clouds and wearing silken robes that convey the lightness of their flight.
E-books, e-book readers and e-commerce may be transforming the publishing industry as well as people's reading habits globally, but the brick-and-mortar bookstores aren't in the mood to throw in the towel just yet.
Based on the 52nd floor of Shanghai Tower, the new flagship store of Duoyun Books appears to be at home among the metro's towering heights, as if to indicate the kind of heights of success it would like to scale.
Off the top of her head, Lu Changqin is able to say with confidence that bathrooms in W Hotels are stocked with lemon and sage body products from upmarket skincare brand Bliss, while Westin is better known for its refreshing white tea scented products such as soap bars, shampoos and conditioner.
An environmental scientist and development economist who graduated from the University of Oxford, Janice Lao is the director of group corporate responsibility and sustainability of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels (HSH), the parent company of the Peninsula luxury hotel.
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