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Li Yuchun's decade of breakthroughs

[2017-01-12 07:32]

Chinese singer-songwriter Li Yuchun released her eighth studio album, Growing Wild, in 2016. Instead of a CD including a dozen new songs, Li broke with tradition by separating the new album into four EPs.

Old tale focus of Liverpool New Year

[2017-01-12 07:32]

Europe's oldest Chinatown is to stage its biggest-ever Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations centering around the myth of a bird trying to fill in the ocean, organizers announced Monday. Liverpool's Chinatown will celebrate the Lunar New Year, which falls on Jan 28, with spectacular projections telling the story of Jingwei and the Ocean.

Birmingham orchestra tour celebrates a century of friendship

[2017-01-12 07:32]

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has just concluded its first tour in China, from late December in Guangzhou, Changsha, Shanghai to Beijing on Jan 5. The orchestra, which is composed of around 85musicians, performed Elgar's Enigma Variations as well as music of Tchaikovsky, Pablo de Sarasate and Dvorak under the baton of conductor Vassily Sinaisky.

Big stage for Western artists

[2017-01-10 07:51]

The year gone by has witnessed many solo shows by influential Western contemporary artists in China as the Chinese appetite for art has increasingly become more global.

After decades of slights, Cuban painter tastes fame at 101

[2017-01-10 07:51]

Cuban-American artist Carmen Herrera has been painting for decades. And painting. And painting. At age 89, she finally sold something.

All warm inside

[2017-01-10 07:51]

As you read this, Chinese chefs somewhere are preparing tubers of Gastrodia elata for a healthy, warming soup. The rhizomes of this leafless orchid (tian ma in Chinese) are valued in traditional medicine for treating headache, stress and fatigue - and traditionally for convulsions such as epilepsy.

Say cheese! Oxford slices story of ancient food

[2017-01-10 07:51]

Cheese is far more than something slapped on a sandwich or sprinkled on top of a pizza, according to a new reference book edited by a Vermont professor.

Eat beat

[2017-01-10 07:51]

BEIJING

Remembering a pioneer

[2017-01-10 07:51]

'Poetry is about life. So it is with design," said Lei Guiyuan (1906-89), the father of Chinese modern design. Lei, who heralded the modernization of Chinese design, founded the country's first designers group, the Shanghai Industrial Artists Association, in 1934.

Picasso shows real war

[2017-01-10 07:51]

Madrid's Reina Sofia museum says it will stage a major Pablo Picasso exhibition to mark the 80th anniversary of his famed Guernica painting, a universal symbol of the cruelty of war.

Watercolors lift a curtain on life struggles of migrant workers

[2017-01-10 07:51]

Liu Xiangdong, 52, had been an interior and graphic designer for a dozen years in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, before he shifted to painting watercolors after 2004.

The dark side of ratings

[2017-01-09 07:15]

In my capacity of a film critic, I was invited to several events at the end of 2016 - not only because it was a busy season for new releases, but because a furor was started about the nature of film criticism.

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