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Avant–garde fashion accessories on show in Beijing

2017-04-18 07:00

Designer Wang Xin's works are full of creativity: A spider on a wall becomes an exquisite watch; a rocket ready for launch is actually a pen; and a Star Wars spaceship is a music box.

Sausage power

2017-04-18 07:00

The Sunrise Kempinski's latest menu offering is a challenge for big eaters: a coil of top-quality sausage that measures 9 meters in length. (For comparison, basketball superstar Yao Ming is 2.26 meters tall.) The sharable ground pork feast comes with sides of mashed potatoes and the inevitable but delicious German sauerkraut and fresh Paulaner beer for 688 yuan ($99). The dish was created in honor of the hotel chain's global celebration of its 120th birthday, marked on April 11. Try it this month and you'll also get a taste of the hotel's caramel-and-pretzel birthday cake.

Ancient suds in modern mugs

2017-04-18 07:00

It looks like a conventional kitchen. There are big square pans of mountain yams, ready for a 70-minute roasting. Thirty kilos of broomcorn millet are in line for half an hour of steaming. A food processor growls like a chainsaw as it chops up Job's tears, the pearly dried kernels also known as coixseed.

Exhibition showcases ancient Huizhou crafts

2017-04-18 07:00

The Huizhou area has contributed handsomely to Chinese culture throughout Chinese history. Huizhou culture flourished in the southern Anhui region and influenced a wide range of fields - philosophy, literature, medicine, architecture, fine art, handicrafts and folk customs.

Macao ready to host awards for hotel pros

2017-04-18 07:00

The 2017 Hotelier Awards will open for applications on April 24, a process that culminates with a black-tie gala to honor professionals in every category of hotel service. For the second consecutive year, the awards ceremony and dinner will be held in Macao, at a hotel venue yet to be announced.

Director of memorable TV drama 'Journey to the West' dies

2017-04-18 07:00

The director of the Chinese classic TV drama, Journey to the West, Yang Jie, passed away Saturday. She was 88. Under her guidance, the single camera typically used in that era managed to film an epoch-making TV drama that influenced generations of Chinese people.

China to feature at Cuba's int'l book fair in 2018

2017-04-17 14:53

China will be the guest country at the 27th International Book Fair in Havana, Cuba, in 2018, the president of the Cuban Book Institute, Juan Rodriguez, announced on Sunday.

Red clay potteries with peculiar style made in China's Taiwan

2017-04-17 14:46

Chen Chin Wang, who has been in the pottery business for two decades, has been using local red clay in recent years and developed ceramics with his peculiar style.

Artist and his students show Shaanxi countryside in new light

2017-04-17 14:20

On a hot summer-like Saturday afternoon, visitors found some solace at 751 Fashion Echo art gallery in Beijing as they wandered through a new ink painting exhibition titled “Beacon Light”.

Beijing show tracks history of porcelain-making art

2017-04-17 10:07

Bai Ming, a professor of Tsinghua University's arts and design department, is known for his research in revitalizing traditional aesthetics in modern time through the medium of porcelain.

Guangzhou show highlights artist's sense of nature

2017-04-17 09:42

Bare tree branches, snowy fields in wilderness, waterfalls, monkeys hidden in mountains and a running tiger -- all these are subjects of Zhang Meng's creation, through which he reveals an inner self of cautiousness and sensitiveness.

Bronze chariots to shine in new digs

2017-04-17 07:34

XI'AN - Bronze chariots that belonged to the first Chinese emperor will get new luster when they are lifted from a cramped subterranean showroom at a major museum to a new exhibition hall above ground.

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