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  • Love finds conflict in Schiller masterpiece

    2009-11-13 09:42

    Germany's Meininiger Theater is celebrating the 250th birth anniversary of German playwright Friedrich Schiller with his masterpiece Intrigue and Love.

  • Ni Hao, Blinky Bill!

    2009-11-10 14:48

    Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, the cutesy gumnut babies, imagined in the form of tender Eucalyptus (gum tree) kernels, will soon invade Chinese nurseries.

  • A comic dynamo who draws outside the lines

    2009-11-10 14:36

    The two-volume graphic novel Abi-Sword, a martial arts epic infused with exceptional calligraphic brush skills, is being re-released 18 years after its creation to appeal to a more international audience.

  • Seven Days from October 7th to 13th

    2009-11-07 10:48

    Events of the coming week

  • Separating the strands of a 'work in progress'

    2009-11-24 10:53

    In 2007, Urban China - primarily an architecture magazine published from Beijing, but essentially an attempt to chart China's progress toward modernization at breakneck speed - was invited to participate at the Kassel Documenta 12.

  • Linking cultures with words

    2009-11-24 10:38

    Chabbi encountered Li's works in 2004 when a friend recommended Afternoon Poetics (Wuhou de Shixue), a collection of the writer's short stories.

  • Heart of the countryside

    2009-11-24 10:32

    Writer Li Er was not surprised when German Prime Minister Angela Merkel invited him for a talk, for the second time, during her visit to China last year.

  • US mom looking to write a book

    2009-11-19 10:57

    After reading the story about her adopted Chinese son (Looking for answers) in the Oct 29 edition of China Daily, the mother Julia Norris from Maryland says she is relieved to note that overseas adoptees are attracting attention in their Motherland.

  • Picture imperfect

    2009-11-18 11:04

    Pan Shixun has lost count of the number of times he has been to Tibet. Except for Ngari in the region's western part and Medog in the southeastern part, the 75-year-old painter has left his footprints on almost every inch of the plateau.

  • Following in the footsteps of The Master

    2009-11-17 10:40

    Now that the verdict is out on the winner of the third edition of the Man Asian Literary Prize, Colm Toibin can drop his guard. Last week he was understandably reticent.

  • Tossed around by the waves

    2009-11-17 10:37

    An excerpt of He An (The Boat to Redemption)

  • Charting newer heights

    2009-11-17 10:34

    Su Tong must have been born to write, says his friend Wang Gan, who waited seven years to edit his "best work" - The Boat to Redemption.

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