The First Beijing International Fine Art Fair, which will run from Oct 9 to 12, unveiled its highlights for Chinese buyers on Sept 15, featuring dozens of artworks by leading Western artists like French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Spanish cubist Pablo Picasso.
Famed writer Zhang Xianliang, known to be one of the first Chinese novelists to have broken the taboo on sex in literature with his works after the "cultural revolution" (1966-76), died on Saturday. He was 78.
Many contemporary Chinese artists, including Xu Bing, Fang Lijun and Zhou Chunya, majored in engraving at college. The art form, which served as a revolutionary propaganda tool in the early 20th century, is still a source of inspiration for them, no matter what the artists now specialize in.
When retail mogul Leslie Wexner peers at one of the Picassos, Dubuffets or Giacomettis in the personal art collection he and his wife Abigail have amassed over the years, he feels a range of emotions that often include gratitude, defeat and exhilaration.
The weeklong National Day holiday is usually a welcome reprieve from work for bustlers - but is also when hustlers work overtime, scamming tourists.
China's leading online travel service company Ctrip.com recently unveiled its forecast of the most popular domestic and overseas destinations during the National Day holiday, based on hundreds of thousands of bookings from Oct 1-7.
Beijing holds quite a few cultural events throughout the year, but fans of classical music usually look forward to the month of October because of the Beijing Music Festival, an annual feature that helps bring to China the latest global productions.
Henrik Isben's classic play about non-conformity and the danger of environmental pollution is about to take on another incarnation on Chinese stages.
Qin Yuhai's photographs were to be removed from subway stations in Beijing and Shanghai. That is unsettling, but probably less so than the reason why they popped up there in the first place.
I set a goal for this month at the end of last month, and it is to clean up my apartment. The obstacle here is to throw away stuff that I am attached to but is useless in the eyes of everyone else.
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