Chinese conductor Hong Xia had her most memorable birthday as she led the Chinese Traditional Orchestra of the China National Opera & Dance Drama Theater at the KKL (the Culture and Convention Centre) in Lucerne, Switzerland.
She stands still, takes a deep breath, spreads her arms like wings and then thrusts them upwards. She then stares at her long sleeves as they slowly slide down her arms.
Yu Huayun was dazzled as the northern lights flickered like colorful sparks across the sky.
The buzz about Budapest has been steadily building since Hungary joined the European Union in 2004. Tourists and multinational companies alike have gravitated to the city's humming core. But the former imperial capital owes at least some of its prosperity to centuries of experience with slowing down, taking a breath and sinking neck-deep into blissful relaxation.
As the Spring Festival rush approaches, the railways are in focus again.
In the past five years, the language-service industry in China has doubled the value of its output, according to the latest report published in Beijing on Friday.
"I've spent so many years not telling the story of Harrison and me having an affair on the first Star Wars movie that it's difficult to know exactly how to tell it now," Carrie Fisher announces on page 49 of her brisk but vague new memoir, The Princess Diarist.
Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie has always been a workaholic. But now immersion in her work doesn't just give her life structure - it also has become a kind of comfort that allows her to deal with grief in Out of Bounds, Val McDermid's latest exciting novel about this Scottish police detective.
For the past 29 years, Qiu Jinxian, who works at the British Museum, has been handling top-tier artworks from China.
The highly realistic style of gongbi painting (meticulous brushwork) began to form some 2,000 years ago and created brilliance in Chinese art. Even though it is in decline today, contemporary artists are trying to enliven it with experimental approaches.
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