In a packed auditorium, the spotlight shines down on a young woman with Afro hairstyle standing at the stage center. She sings Schubert's Ave Maria while making hand gestures as if telling a story.
While pieces like The Little Match Girl and The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen are all too familiar to Chinese families, the translation and understanding of the Danish writer's fairy tales has evolved in stages in the past century.
Le Le wags her tail when people approach her. At first glance she appears like any normal dog. She is energetic and has inquisitive eyes.
On a cold winter's night in December, I spotted a shivering puppy hiding under a car. It was clearly terrified but appeared to be in good condition.
Centuries-old shadow puppetry from Huaxian county, northwestern Shaanxi province is being performed in the Chinese Pavilion at the ongoing 57th Venice Biennale for the first time.
WASHINGTON - When Napoleon's elder brother Joseph Bonaparte was forced into exile, he brought to the United States a collection of lavish rococo and neoclassical paintings that earned enduring fascination.
Le Le wags her tail when people approach her. At first glance she appears like any normal dog. She is energetic and has inquisitive eyes.
On a cold winter's night in December, I spotted a shivering puppy hiding under a car. It was clearly terrified but appeared to be in good condition.
Centuries-old shadow puppetry from Huaxian county, northwestern Shaanxi province is being performed in the Chinese Pavilion at the ongoing 57th Venice Biennale for the first time.
WASHINGTON - When Napoleon's elder brother Joseph Bonaparte was forced into exile, he brought to the United States a collection of lavish rococo and neoclassical paintings that earned enduring fascination.
A three-story neoclassical building on Kulangsu, a 1.88 square kilometer island off the coast of Xiamen, in Fujian province, has been given a three-year makeover.
Zhao Chuang, a Beijing-based artist, has drawn several birdlike dinosaurs for Chinese scientists who have found the fossils, and his images appear with scientific writings in international magazines and journals.