Chinese singer-songwriter Li Yuchun released her eighth studio album, Growing Wild, in 2016. Instead of a CD including a dozen new songs, Li broke with tradition by separating the new album into four EPs.
Europe's oldest Chinatown is to stage its biggest-ever Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations centering around the myth of a bird trying to fill in the ocean, organizers announced Monday. Liverpool's Chinatown will celebrate the Lunar New Year, which falls on Jan 28, with spectacular projections telling the story of Jingwei and the Ocean.
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has just concluded its first tour in China, from late December in Guangzhou, Changsha, Shanghai to Beijing on Jan 5. The orchestra, which is composed of around 85musicians, performed Elgar's Enigma Variations as well as music of Tchaikovsky, Pablo de Sarasate and Dvorak under the baton of conductor Vassily Sinaisky.
The year gone by has witnessed many solo shows by influential Western contemporary artists in China as the Chinese appetite for art has increasingly become more global.
Cuban-American artist Carmen Herrera has been painting for decades. And painting. And painting. At age 89, she finally sold something.
As you read this, Chinese chefs somewhere are preparing tubers of Gastrodia elata for a healthy, warming soup. The rhizomes of this leafless orchid (tian ma in Chinese) are valued in traditional medicine for treating headache, stress and fatigue - and traditionally for convulsions such as epilepsy.
Cheese is far more than something slapped on a sandwich or sprinkled on top of a pizza, according to a new reference book edited by a Vermont professor.
'Poetry is about life. So it is with design," said Lei Guiyuan (1906-89), the father of Chinese modern design. Lei, who heralded the modernization of Chinese design, founded the country's first designers group, the Shanghai Industrial Artists Association, in 1934.
Madrid's Reina Sofia museum says it will stage a major Pablo Picasso exhibition to mark the 80th anniversary of his famed Guernica painting, a universal symbol of the cruelty of war.
Liu Xiangdong, 52, had been an interior and graphic designer for a dozen years in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, before he shifted to painting watercolors after 2004.
In my capacity of a film critic, I was invited to several events at the end of 2016 - not only because it was a busy season for new releases, but because a furor was started about the nature of film criticism.
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