The late afternoon sun of winter warmed us as we bowed before the front door of that little whitewashed house in the mountains of rural Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.
More performing artists from China are going abroad, while foreign troupes are visiting the country.
As a "specialist actor", Liu Jin has played late premier Zhou Enlai in more than 70 TV dramas and films.
The China Association of Performing Arts Committee has launched a branch that will be dedicated to traditional Chinese opera.
Youth has raked in 480 million yuan since being released on Dec 15, and could be a big winner for Feng Xiaogang.
"Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends," said Denis Morisset, a professor in international luxury brand management at ESSEC Business School, quoting Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, at a fair for French luxury education in Beijing on Dec 9.
When you work hard preparing for a test, but still ending up failing, it can be upsetting. But Huang Hongchuan turned one such unpleasant experience into a promising business idea.
JA China works with companies and schools to nurture young entrepreneurs.
Young entrepreneurs from China and Sweden had an opportunity to show their talent for technological innovation at the first Nobel Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition this month.
When pianist Zhang Shengliang, 20, was in Beijing recently ahead of the release of his new album, he showed that he has lost none of his old flair.
A 15th century ink-brush painting marking a lifelong friendship between two artists fetched 148 million yuan ($22 million) at a Beijing auction Monday night.
A mass maintenance project to return Jiayuguan Pass, the west end of the Great Wall in Gansu province, to its former histric grandeur is coming to an end.