The curtain has dropped on the first SCO Film Festival, an event that gathered together talent from the 12 Shanghai Cooperation Organization member and observer states to boost cultural exchanges and cinematic cooperation.
China's rapidly expanding film industry is regularly setting new records. As of June 16, the country's box-office takings surpassed 30 billion yuan ($4.6 billion) 35 days earlier than last year, according to the live tracker Maoyan.
Most online writers face a similar struggle when it comes to seeing their work being adapted for the screen - the uncompromising "battle" between imagination and reality, whether it's the practicalities of filming, or budget constraints.
NEW YORK - Nine Hong Kong films, including two world premieres, one North American premiere, and three New York premieres, will be featured at the upcoming 2018 New York Asian Film Festival in Lincoln Center, New York City.
Two years ago, a 19-year-old sheepherder from Qinghai province in the country's northwest, laid down his crook and traveled all the way to East China's Fujian province, to pick up a paintbrush and pursue his dream of becoming an artist.
When the graduation season gets underway in June, it's time for Wu Bi to bid farewell to his alma mater, Peking University, and also the seedbed of his passion for acting and playwriting.
On June 13 the New England Journal of Medicine retracted and republished a landmark study on the Mediterranean diet - and issued five other corrections - after an obscure report last year scrutinized thousands of articles in eight journals published over more than a decade and questioned some of the methods used.
The alarm rings. Violinist Ray Chen opens his eyes and gets up from his bed. After getting dressed, he says: "Today is a special day!" This is how a video which Chen directed unfolds.
"Susie, it's just so stressful!" my friend Marni complained to me at dinner a few weeks ago.
"It seems to me National Treasure is a hyperlink by which variety shows, museums and the public have been connected."
Puppetry troupes from across China staged a performance in Beijing in 1955, and in the audience was the Czech artist Zdenek Sklenar, who passed away in 1986. He was enthralled by the show that centered around the Monkey King, the powerful protagonist from the 17th-century Chinese classic Journey to the West.
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