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A suburban Beijing town draws artists from overseas

[2017-02-24 07:18]

American artist Sridhar Ramasami has it all: A wife, a child and a gallery of his own in Songzhuang, a small town on the outskirts of Beijing.

Music with meaning

[2017-02-23 07:50]

If you take Walt Disney's Zootopia and American musical La La Land and put them together to make a film, it may look like Sing, which hit cinemas on the Chinese mainland on Feb 17.

Fassbender brings video game to life with new sci-fi film

[2017-02-23 07:50]

As Michael Fassbender wields a sword, a gift from a Chinese fan, the two-time Oscar nominee looks like he is reliving his role in Assassin's Creed.

Stage carnival

[2017-02-23 07:50]

The annual Lin Zhaohua Theater Arts Festival is an important cultural event in China that brings well-known foreign plays to audiences here.

World-class art meets aerobics in New York

[2017-02-23 07:50]

New York City's cavernous Metropolitan Museum of Art has been holding lively morning workout sessions this winter amid its prized masterpieces.

Musical on Oz's famous witch is set for its China debut

[2017-02-23 07:50]

The Broadway production The Wicked Witch of the West will debut in China this spring.

Heading home

[2017-02-22 07:51]

Six years ago, Yao Huifeng made a decision many still consider outrageous.

Investing in emergent social entrepreneurs

[2017-02-22 07:51]

Yale Law School graduate Bill Drayton founded Ashoka, a global association that promotes social entrepreneurship, in 1981.

Making doctors doers

[2017-02-22 07:51]

The widely held notion that only the most hands-on medical students can earn doctorates may not be true, a recent study suggests.

Star dream blooms in spring

[2017-02-22 07:51]

This year's art admission test, or yikao in Chinese, has set many pretty faces and figures in full spin. Clad in traditional Peking Opera costumes, teenage students demonstrate their performance skills, reciting, singing, and acting out their favorite Peking Opera excerpts in the seven to 10 minutes required during the two days of second-round test, organized at the Central Academy of Drama since Feb 9. Some 30 students will be recruited as freshmen for the academy's department of Peking Opera. Each February, students rush to take such tests at famous arts schools including at the Beijing Film Academy and Central Academy of Drama.

Winter sport finds favor

[2017-02-22 07:51]

Armed with ice axes and crampons, climbers scale a 25-meter-high frozen waterfall. Their bodies are supported only by their equipment. And below them lies a frozen lake stretching across the base of a mountain.

Adventures on ice

[2017-02-22 07:51]

Ice climbing is a dynamic winter sport that combines excitement, technique and determination.

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