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An exhibition featuring seven Canadian sculptors is currently running at the Liu Haisu Art Museum in Hongqiao. All from Calgary, the sculptors showcase the diversity and maturity of the prairie region, ...

A Chinese central government official said Monday in Beijing that recent talks with the Dalai Lama"s private representatives were "frank and sincere," but serious differences remain.Zhu ...

Renowned for its "velvet" strings, "golden" brass and the exceptional and personal timbre of the woodwinds, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (RCO) of Holland is widely acclaimed as ...

The 20-hour, 55-scene Kunqu Opera "Peony Pavilion" has been - blessedly - condensed into one and a half hours of dance drama about star-crossed lovers. The convoluted classic from the Ming Dynasty ...

For Adriaa, a South African tourist, a few sips of tea in a bar featuring Chinese horticulture and framed windows meant more than just an evening"s pastime; instead it gave him a real feeling of being ...

August the 15th according to the lunar calendar is the traditional Mid-autumn Festival in China (14th Sep. 2008) . The festival is the second most important festival (just second to the Spring Festival) ...

Much older thanPeking Opera, the Liyuan Opera, literally known asPear OrchardOpera, is popular in Quanzhou,Zhangzhouand Xiamen in coastal Fujian, and has spread toChaozhouand Swatow inGuangdong Province,Hong ...

Cloisonne was first described in China in 1388 by Cao Zhao in his Ge gu yao lun (Essential Criteria of Antiquities): The base of this ware is of copper, and designs an it are in five colours, made with ...

Wax printing is a kind of ancient traditional craft. Artists of wax printing make great efforts to weed through the old traditional techniques to bring forth the new and raise the wax printing art to a ...