Arts scene pulsating with promise, Lai says
2013-03-08 12:30:02
With money "pouring" into its arts and culture scene, China stands poised to begin influencing other nations artistically.
'Beautiful experiment' in crossing cultures
2013-03-08 12:30:02
When the playwright David Henry Hwang wrote Dance and the Railroad in 1980, defining and documenting the immigrant identity was for many Chinese Americans a task of serious importance.
Furry red Elmo teaches Mandarin to US children
2013-03-08 12:30:02
The first Muppet to blaze a trail in China was Big Bird, with a 1983 television special there. In 2010 the 8-foot-tall, yellow-feathered animal's Mandarin-language version of Big Bird Looks at the World debuted in China.
Musician warms to Shanghai jazz
2013-03-07 11:54:49
In 1935, the notorious Shanghai gangster Du Yuesheng ordered the composer and musician Li Jinhui to create the first all-Chinese jazz group, the Clear Wind Dance Band.
Sharing art in an age of technology
2013-03-06 11:16:09
Is contemporary art for everyone? Is Chinese contemporary art for everyone?
On campus, scrolls are a portal to history
2013-03-01 12:36:00
Visitors to the gallery at George Mason University's School of Art near Washington may find the Chinese scrolls on display educational, but many probably don't know that all of the scrolls are the handiwork of masters since the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
Recalling the voice of the past, in the present
2013-03-01 12:35:29
When the French literary theorist and philosopher Roland Barthes published his influential book, Camera Lucida, in 1980, he was grieving the death of his mother. In search of her likeness, he struggled with the false promise of permanence offered by old photographs. They depicted his mother - and yet, no photo seemed to capture her true spirit, he wrote.
Breathing new life for an ancient instrument abroad
2013-03-01 12:35:29
Chinese pipa player, Wu Man, finds it difficult to say "No" to potential performances and projects, because spreading her native land's music is her life's work.
A family legacy of venture capitalism
2013-03-01 12:35:29
Bill Draper said in his book The Startup Game that the meeting with the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1981 gave him "a sneak preview" of a far-reaching transformation in China.
Filmmaker strives to showcase spirit of Chinese rock
2013-03-01 12:35:29
In 2006, New York native Maya E. Rudolph went to Beijing and found Chinese rock 'n' roll. In 2012, she returned to make a film about it.
NY library catalogs gift from Chinese auctioneer
2013-03-01 12:35:29
China Guardian Auctions Co, the second-biggest auctioneer on the Chinese mainland, added traditional Chinese elements to a branch of New York's Queens Library by donating more than 60 auction catalogs.
Silk Road arrives in New York promising to excite audiences
2013-02-28 11:41:40
Giant frescoes served as the backdrop last night as 60 dancers in colorful costumes from China's Gansu Dance Theater performed the New York debut of the award-winning Silk Road production at Lincoln Center.