Joan Chen. Gong Li. Zhang Ziyi. Liu Yifei? The starlet who co-starred with Jet Li and Jackie Chan in The Forbidden Kingdom may just be China's next big thing. Thanks to her performance in the kungfu blockbuster, the 20-year-old has just joined the William Morris Agency (WMA), the prestigious talent and literary agency with past like Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, and Katharine Hepburn. Liu is one of the agency's only two Chinese actresses; the other is Zhang Ziyi.
"The younger sister Lin falls from the sky, like a light cloud just flying from the back of the mountain." It is probably one of the most popular arias from the Yueju Opera, A Dream of the Red Chamber.
MTV Networks China has received exclusive landing rights into the Beijing Olympic Village at the Beijing Olympics 2008. Approved by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG), MTV China will be the only music television channel to broadcast over the private Olympic CATV network to all of the Olympic related competition venues and hotels from June 24, 2008.
The idea that listening to music during exercise can boost motivation is nothing new, but organizers of the inaugural Run to the Beat half marathon, happening in London this October, are taking the notion one step further, by providing carefully selected music at 16 points along the event's 13-mile route.
The Peony Pavilion is a 16th-century Chinese drama about love, death, and resurrection, and arguably the most famous of all Kunqu operas written by Tang Xianzu (1550-1616).
Sunrise (Ri Chu), The Thunderstorm (Lei Yu) and The Family (Jia) are the most famous works of the late playwright Cao Yu (1910-1996), but Cao himself once said The Peking Man (Beijing Ren) is the one he was most satisfied with.
A leafy trail winds through the Norwegian woods to a secluded section of grassland, which shimmers in the moonlight. On this patch of paradise, a piano and violin release haunting sounds. This romantic scene will be one of many staged in the Great Hall of the People on Friday by Secret Garden.
Composer Guo Wenjing says the most challenging part he created for the original ballet The Peony Pavilion are the two pas de deux between the leading female role Du Liniang and her lover Liu Mengmei. One is the first scene in Act I in which the lovers embrace in the dream. The other is the last scene of the ballet in which the ghost of Du makes love with the living Liu.
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