Like many of her peers, Wu Chenghui was only interested in landing a job in either Shanghai or Beijing -major Chinese cities that are deemed to have the best job prospects and highest salaries.
The Yangtze River Delta region has achieved much progress in terms of tourism and shopping integration, according to a new research report. The region includes Shanghai, and Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces.
Amateur director Lu Qingyi's debut work, Four Springs, which won the best documentary at the FIRST International Film Festival, hit Chinese cinemas on Jan 4.
Zhang Xiaodong's obsession with ancient books has urged him to revive a forgotten binding technique from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and to hand-make different kinds of paper books with exquisite workmanship.
BEIJING - Shen Xiaocen still remembers the moment when she received an audition notice for the Chinese version of Mamma Mia!, nine years ago in London.
Film director Zhao Ji is very familiar with the traditional folk tale Legend of the White Snake, but has always been puzzled by it.
"I'm from the northeast, too," Jesse Appell says in a thick dongbei accent, before swiftly adding for his audience's relish, "from the northeastern United States."
Often portrayed as a melancholic young man burdened with indecisiveness, Hamlet will take on the form of a hero and philosopher in the upcoming Chinese adaptation of the famous Shakespearean play that will be performed at the Shanghai Grand Theater over Jan 16-17.
TIANJIN - Sun Zhenhong has been trying to revive the fading folk art, known as la yang pian in Chinese, which involves a showman dramatizing stories using pictures inside a box while the audience sees the actions through a series of small holes.
In an oxbow lake along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, a breathy sigh pierces the surface stillness as one of China's most endangered animals comes up for a gulp of hazy air.
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.
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