NEW YORK - Joe Sinicki would have mistaken Carrie Feyerabend for a Chinese performer, had he not watched her presentation of the Peking Opera classic, The Heavenly Maid Scatters Blossoms, at a recent show at the State University of New York in Buffalo.
A concert at the Tianqiao Performing Arts Center in Beijing on Friday brought together several bigname artists, including internationally acclaimed pianist Lang Lang, pop singer Xu Wei, ballet dancer Qiu Siting, percussionist Zhang Yangsheng and violinist Lao Li. But the real stars of the show were children like 10-year-old Wang Xinyao, who comes from a rural part of Xiongxian county, which is now part of the Xiongan New Area in northern China's Hebei province.
China's first immersive virtual-interactive teaching laboratory for archaeology was recently built by Northwest University in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, in Northwest China.
WAKISO, Uganda - While singing traditional Chinese folk songs and giving kung fu performances, Uganda's first batch of Chinese-language teachers celebrated their graduation in Wakiso on Dec 20.
LANZHOU - Apart from book donations and volunteer teachers, Chinese college students now have a new way to support China's poorer regions - by gobbling their potatoes.
NANJING - Why would a Chinese nutrition professor start a roasted-chicken business with ambitions to turn it into a chain as popular as KFC?
At the grand age of 83, Han Meilin, who still has dark hair and a 1-year-old son, continues to prove that, despite his advancing years, he remains full of youthful vigor.
The late Cantonese artist Li Tiefu (1869-1952) once said, "All my life, I've had two passions: revolution and art."
It's a matter of time for travelers to five Chinese cities offering 144-hour visa-free transit as of Jan 1 - and for the cities themselves.
Luo Zhiguang is grateful to the village heads before him.
A painting showing a city at sunset - a message of peace and hope - is the cover of Xu Wei's new album, Shining On All.
NEW YORK - The New York Philharmonic Orchestra will stage a Spring Festival concert and gala on Feb 6 in the city's Lincoln Center, featuring the US debut of Chinese composer Tan Dun's violin concerto, Fire Ritual, according to a news release.
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