A place shaped by time
3 Sacred Mountains & 5 Great Peaks
College art exhibition showcases classical Chinese painting
Exhibition marks anniversary of the CPC
Images capture timeless beauty of wooden covered bridges
Kunming's 20,000 jacaranda trees paint city purple
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Astrophotographers flock to Xinjiang for celestial light show

Long after sunset, sweltering 40 C heat still hung over the vast, remote Gobi Desert as hot winds swept across the wilderness.

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Inside jokes have outsiders laughing

At 7:30 pm, audience members begin filing into GOAT, a comedy club on Xiangyang North Road in Shanghai's Jing'an district. Backstage, Harry Hussain, who is known simply as Harry, eats a banana with his coffee, his pre-show ritual.

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Theater recalls wartime Chongqing

EDINBURGH — For people living in Chongqing, Southwest China, in the late 1930s and early 1940s, fog was more than weather. It could mean precious hours of cover from bombers overhead.

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Annual jazz festival returns for its 22nd edition with a record 17-day program

The 17-day festival will feature over 146 performances by more than 100 musicians from 29 countries and regions.

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Silent witness to vanishing worlds

By the time Erfan Omar's face is painted near the end of Odes to Heroes, his character is no longer the boy who has spent years wondering why his father left the family.