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From east to west and all that jazz

2021-01-09 09:40

From the moment that the 13-year-old Chinese pianist A Bu gained wide attention by making his debut at the Beijing Nine Gates International Jazz Music Festival in 2012, it was clear that he wasn't your average teen pianist. He impressed the audiences, the musicians and critics with his seemingly limitless technique and a deep understanding of tunes written long before he was born.

With heart, soul, mind and feet

2021-01-09 09:35

Leah Dou gave an online live show recently, performed in an abandoned hotel. In this space, with indoor trees reaching the ceiling and giant octopus legs protruding from the gray walls, Dou and her band sang, danced and no doubt dared to dream.

Leah Dou releases third album GSG Mixtape

2021-01-08 15:11

Chinese singer-songwriter Leah Dou, or Dou Jinglong, has just released her third full-length album, GSG Mixtape. It features 13 songs she wrote, in styles that are hard to define.

Chang Chen's new sci-fi film explores memory transplants

2021-01-08 14:39

Rising to top the world's movie market in terms of yearly box-office takings, China has a huge annual output of feature-length films but only a few are sci-fi tales.

New bookstores in Shanghai turn the page on a new year

2021-01-07 17:10

A series of new bookstores in Shanghai opened during the Christmas and New Year holidays, showing a budding new ecology for brick-and-mortar literary shopping.

China expects 230 mln ice-snow trips this winter: report

2021-01-07 14:52

Chinese tourists are expected to make 230 million trips featuring ice and snow during the current winter season, a report released by the China Tourism Academy (CTA) said Tuesday.

Hollywood halts productions amid unprecedented COVID-19 surge

2021-01-07 11:39

Hollywood is reeling as the usual cheer of Christmas and the New Year have given way to a massive post-holiday COVID-19 spike that has brought disruption and new lockdowns to the entertainment industry.

China's box office soars as new year dawns

2021-01-07 11:14

China's box office sales from Dec 28, 2020, to Jan 3 this year topped 2.13 billion yuan ($330 million), up 93 percent week on week.

A Little Red Flower continues leading box office on Chinese mainland

2021-01-06 10:00

Chinese feature film A Little Red Flower continued leading box office chart on the mainland Monday, grossing 42.38 million yuan ($6.54 million).

Documentary marks 200th birthday of Engels

2021-01-05 15:50

The Excellent Engels, a two-part historical documentary about the world-renowned philosopher, has recently run on three of China Central Television's channels -- CCTV-4, CCTV-1 and CCTV-9 -- starting last month.

Winter wonders on pristine peaks

2021-01-05 12:38

Central China's Qinling Mountain Range divides the country north to south. In winter, its gorges are blanked with white snow and silvery ice.

TV show presents attire through the ages

2021-01-05 10:58

To find out why, and uncover many other anecdotes related to fashion in Chinese history, many viewers are tuning-in to Chic China, a 10-episode TV show that started on CCTV-3 in November. It has brought ancient fashion to life through a combined stage show and voiceover, with each episode concluding with comments by Fan Di'an, director of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

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