Memories of home, the smell of the sea lingering in the town he was born and raised in Zanzibar, and the sea horizon as seen from there, remain with Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 Nobel literature laureate.
Standing in front of a canvas in an art gallery in the heart of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, 50-year-old artist Dawit Muluneh is fully absorbed in the painting of ancient Chinese characters.
In 1979, Thomas Keller was just another cook working for a French chef, not yet dreaming of becoming a professional chef himself. That changed one day when his boss asked him a simple question: "Why do cooks cook?"
Xue Tingzhe can still recall his first piano lesson with his Japanese teacher when he was 6, after he had moved to Japan with his parents, who were pursuing medical degrees. The teacher, Osmi Emi, in Tokyo, had Xue listen to three pieces of music and asked him to choose his favorite. Then, she gave him a piece of paper and a pencil, and asked him to draw the pictures he saw after listening to it.
Orange chicken, salt and pepper chips, sweet and sour pork, fried rice…Max Burns lists several typical Western-style of Chinese dishes that disappoints him. For a 21-year-old British young man who spent his first 13 years in China, those cuisines are far from authentic, but rather a category which is invented to cater to Western preferences.
Shaun Gibson's access to Chinese music began in the karaoke bars of Liverpool, England.
Hope Justman, an 81-year-old American, has just completed her 24th trip along the shudao, an ancient road system in Sichuan province that dates back over two millennia.
Give fishermen a thread, and they can tie it to a hook to catch fish, but give it to someone from Huotong town and they can make a lion fly.
When collaborative pianist Zhang Jialin was researching early modern Chinese art songs, he found a number of pieces that are rarely performed today.
Despite having just disembarked from an 11-hour flight on a rainy March night, French director Justine Triet proceeded directly to the Peking University Centennial Memorial Hall.
And Then There Were None, a play by acclaimed British director Lucy Bailey will tour cities including Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, for the first time from May to July.
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