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  • Bid to save Qiang culture

    2009-11-26 11:31

    Master of traditional Chinese painting, Fan Zeng, has donated 3 million yuan ($440,000) to help preserve the intangible cultural heritage of the Qiang ethnic group, which suffered greatly in last year's earthquake in Sichuan province.

  • Man of many words

    2009-11-26 11:05

    When Yang Xianyi's mother was pregnant with him, she had an unusual dream: She saw a white tiger leap into her lap.

  • Dadawa's going places

    2009-11-26 10:34

    When Dadawa first went to Tibet autonomous region in 1994 she was unimpressed by the potholed roads and lack of electricity, but the magical land nevertheless fascinated the Guanghzou girl.

  • Floating like a butterfly

    2009-11-26 10:28

    Like many other young girls who love singing and dancing, Zhou Peng was excited to appear on television when she won a national singing competition in 1999 at 16. Then she released an album that sold well and became known as "China's first dance music singer".

  • Chinese classic scroll painting sells for record $24 million

    2009-11-25 17:33

    A rare, classical scroll by a Ming dynasty artist fetched $24.8 million at a Beijing sale, the highest price ever paid for a Chinese painting at auction, in a positive sign for the downturn-stricken Chinese art market.

  • A Stellar century

    2009-11-24 11:18

    Privately owned theater chain Stellar International Cineplex has opened its 100th screen, in World City, a 35,000 sq m lifestyle high street located in the center of Beijing's CBD.

  • Soldiers of truth

    2009-11-24 11:00

    China hands are in demand today in the United States, with relations between the two countries becoming entwined ever tighter.

  • Separating the strands of a 'work in progress'

    2009-11-24 10:53

    In 2007, Urban China - primarily an architecture magazine published from Beijing, but essentially an attempt to chart China's progress toward modernization at breakneck speed - was invited to participate at the Kassel Documenta 12.

  • Linking cultures with words

    2009-11-24 10:38

    Chabbi encountered Li's works in 2004 when a friend recommended Afternoon Poetics (Wuhou de Shixue), a collection of the writer's short stories.

  • Heart of the countryside

    2009-11-24 10:32

    Writer Li Er was not surprised when German Prime Minister Angela Merkel invited him for a talk, for the second time, during her visit to China last year.

  • Stamp of approval

    2009-11-23 11:49

    Twenty-one Chinese artists - including Zeng Fanzhi, Yue Minjun and Fang Lijun - have become the first group of appointed artists at the newly founded Contemporary Art Academy of China (CAAC).

  • On the record

    2009-11-23 11:42

    Artist Zhang Xiaogang says he's "a person who lives in the past".

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