MOSCOW - Russians had an opportunity to experience Chinese culture during the China Festival held recently at Moscow's landmark Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy, or VDNH. The two-day China Festival was to celebrate the 70th anniversary of both the founding of the People's Republic of China and of China-Russia diplomatic relations.
When a quintet performed Overture on Zhejiang Folk-Tunes in the lobby of a hotel located in Tianjin Binhai New Area on Sept 16, the picturesque small towns of East China's Zhejiang province were revealed to the audience through music.
HANGZHOU - A total of 22 students from Rwanda arrived in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou recently where Alibaba is headquartered to start their studies at the Alibaba Business School of the Hangzhou Normal University. They are the first batch of students taking the undergraduate cross-border e-commerce program for African students launched by the business school.
WASHINGTON - The new edition of a well-received international acupuncture textbook is now available in the United States, offering help to a growing number of acupuncture practitioners in the country.
It's not altogether usual for visitors to spend the whole night out on the Great Wall, but that's just what is about to happen at the opening concert of the Beijing Music Festival on Oct 4 - when German-born British composer Max Richter performs his groundbreaking eight-hour work, Sleep.
The ongoing ACT Shanghai International Theatre Festival has participants from nine countries, with a total of eight plays and one installation project at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center.
There's not a single Asian restaurant in Taormina, a small hilltop town on the east coast of the Italian island of Sicily. But for a few short weeks in June, the locals were able to enjoy the sumptuous flavors of Chinese food at a pop-up restaurant opened by a state banquet chef and four Chinese actors.
A sake brewery was founded 107 years ago in Komatsu, a small town in Japan's Ishikawa prefecture, flanked by mountains and the vast ocean beyond.
Perhaps the best way to remember artistic gurus is to share their masterpieces with people. After nine years of renovation and expansion, the new Xu Beihong Memorial Museum, covering over 5,300 square meters in Beijing's Xinjiekou area, opened to the public on Sept 17.
Late sculptor Liu Shiming could have stayed in Beijing to carve out a successful career like many of his contemporaries.
For most Chinese fans, it was a shock to see Mei Changsu, the protagonist of the TV series Nirvana in Fire, a royal period drama set in ancient China, "speaking" Spanish fluently.
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