When French actress Sophie Marceau appeared as part of China Central Television's traditional annual gala in 2014, she performed La Vie En Rose along with Chinese veteran singer-songwriter Liu Huan, for more than a billion viewers.
Over 40 years ago, Wu Yuchu was trapped in a blizzard in the Tibet autonomous region.
Young Chinese are showing interest in the performing arts - theater, drama, dance, music, to name a few. Live entertainment is in demand as the country's youth are more willing to pay for it than the previous generations, experts say.
Last June, when the first edition of the Guangzhou Michelin Guide was released, eight restaurants were awarded one star each.
Pouring a glass of wine to have with dinner was once a rare sight in Chinese households, yet within the space of just 10 years, wine is now a popular evening tipple around the country.
In a bid to attract more players from around the world as well as showcase China's culture, more and more Chinese game companies are incorporating traditional cultural elements into their creations and diversifying their income streams by making the most out of their intellectual property rights.
The popularity of hyper-casual games has been rapidly growing over the past few years and the players of such games have not been hesitating to spend on in-app purchases, according to Christopher Farm, CEO of data provider Tenjin.
Honor of Kings, a highly popular Chinese mobile game with over 200 million registered users, launched an exhibition that gives an immersive live experience in Shanghai on July 26.
Chang Shana was just 13 when her love affair with Dunhuang began. Born in France, she was the youngest member of a conservation and research team at the Mogao Caves led by her father Chang Shuhong (1904-94), a noted painter who had returned from Paris to become a founding director of the Dunhuang Academy.
GUANGZHOU - Every Saturday night, a small theater called Xigua, or "watermelon", capable of seating an audience of about 80 and located in Yongqing Fang - century-old alleyways in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou - is packed to the rafters.
At 18 years old, after concluding gaokao - China's college entrance exams - Huang Lei was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy.
SHANGHAI - "In flamenco songs, there's a line that goes: 'I fell into a deep well without a rope', which is exactly how I feel now," says 42-year-old Tao Jiarong, a Shanghai-based white-collar worker who likes to indulge in the Spanish art of flamenco.
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