Mok factor

2013-01-29 09:48:51

43-year-old singer-actress Karen Mok is back on the scene, a year after she married her first love Johannes at a church near Florence, Italy.

Shedding light on storehouse secrets

2013-01-28 10:54:50

It has become a tradition for the National Art Museum of China to celebrate Spring Festival, or the Lunar New Year, by exhibiting part of its immense collection.

American idol live in China

2013-01-28 10:48:58

Adam Lambert will be the first American Idol star to hold a solo concert in China, making his debut on March 3. Plenty of confidence A lost people

Our inner child revealed

2013-01-28 10:30:06

A group of young contemporary Chinese artists present a show that looks at fairytales. Unknown horizons Ancient words blossom into modern art

Forbidden City comes alive

2013-01-25 13:49:50

The Palace Museum, the China Arts and Entertainment Group and Beijing Gehua Cultural Development Group will co-produce a large-scale cultural show named The Forbidden City.

Museums reach across the Straits

2013-01-25 10:33:05

This October, the Taipei Palace Museum will hold a large-scale exhibition themed Emperor Qianlong's Artistic Taste.Beijing's bulwarks Dream factory

Unknown horizons

2013-01-25 10:09:57

A painter captures the lives of jade diggers on a journey to the western lands of Xinjiang. Game on for designers Perfect form for a tea ceremony

The music of Beijing's bells and drums sounds in NYC

2013-01-25 10:00:08

The composer Zhou Long presents very different voices in a unified program, around a concept through which the audience could find their own way into a conversation about time.

Novel ideas

2013-01-22 10:53:08

Some fiction works we read and forget. Others, like Xue Yiwei's, make us think past the last page.

Series illustrates history as kids' stuff

2013-01-22 10:20:32

The Forbidden City and emperors' mysterious lives have been transformed into cartoon books to promote traditional culture.Guardian of time's past

Taking in Paris down through the ages

2013-01-22 09:17:45

The Bastille at about the time of the French Revolution is shown in "Paris 3D," a tour of the city through the ages.

A reluctant pretty boy, comfortable on the stage

2013-01-22 09:16:22

Seeing Ethan Hawke in a grungy Midtown rehearsal space leading actors through a reading is a bit of a shock. He is rehearsing "Clive," in which he stars and directs.