In good voice
2011-04-26 07:55:41
Sa Dingding is well known in the West as a crossover artist, but she is now concentrating on getting Chinese people to appreciate her folk roots.
Sauropods, grazing their way to gigantic
2011-04-24 08:05:25
No dinosaurs were quite like the sauropods. They were the biggest land animals ever, consuming everything in sight.
Odds and ends are more than just nostalgia
2011-04-25 07:59:29
Vintage is becoming the name of the game in the Gulou area with a host of vintage stores selling mostly retro clothes and items from the 1970s and 1980s springing up on the back of Beijing's music scene.
Classic tale retold
2011-04-23 05:38:51
Composer Zhou Long's Pulitzer for an opera version of a Chinese legend caps decades of efforts to bridge the cultures of East and West.
Revival on stage
2011-04-24 08:07:26
Many cultural icons are fading away as modern generations find other distractions. But Peking Opera is now enjoying a revival.
Need to impress? Zip out an avatar
2011-04-24 08:05:55
You'll sit at three-dimensional virtual meetings and classes, looking around the table or the lecture hall at your colleagues' avatars.
The ukulele's untrained melody
2011-04-24 08:05:55
Not long ago the ukulele was an endangered species, seen as cheap exotica or a comic prop.
Escaping from life's misery
2011-04-22 10:53:41
All misfortunes are alike, but every happiness is unique, Liu Liu writes in her latest work, The Marriage of Miss Su, a collection of 12 short stories.
Out of the shadow
2011-04-22 10:47:10
A self-declared 'pessimist' of an author seeks upbeat outlook on real life.
Retiree weaves new career with knots
2011-04-20 07:56:50
Liu Liming's love of Chinese knots has bound her to a craft that has been listed as part of the nation's intangible cultural heritage for the past 20 years.
Memories etched in ink
2011-04-20 07:55:58
One man's love of Lhasa's Barkhor Street fuels a voracious appetite for pen-and-ink drawings of its ancient buildings.
Kunqu opera staged in Paris
2011-04-19 12:30:24
"The Peony Pavilion" is a love story about Du Liniang, daughter of a wealthy official, and Liu Mengmei, a talented but poor young scholar.