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Shanghai School Teaches Foreigners Chinese Culture
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| After setting up a series of successful fashion and decoration businesses and living abroad for years, Cheng Lan has set up a school in the city of Shanghai to teach foreigners more about Chinese culture. |
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Ancient Opera Takes on a Young Look
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| The old tunes of Peking Opera have been sounding from the Political Consultative Conference Hall in recent evenings, captivating not aged Peking Opera buffs, but audiences of children. |
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List of Recommended Children's Books Released
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| The State Administration of Press and Publication Monday recommended 100 books for Chinese children to read during the coming month-long summer vacation.
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Curtain Drops on Beijing Arts Fest
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| The month-long Meet in Beijing arts festival wrapped up last night at the packed Great Hall of the People to the composer Bright Sheng's The Phoenix played by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. |
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International Animation Festival Opens in Hangzhou
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| To foster and promote China's comic and animation industry, the First International Animation and Cartoon Festival raised its curtain in Hangzhou Tuesday, the day before International Children's Day. |
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Chinese Enthusiasm for Overseas Study Going Rational
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| Each June, young Chinese applying for overseas study undergo the most anxious time in their life as they queue up in front of foreign embassies and wait for their visas. This year, however, embassies did not receive as many applicants as in the past, an official with the British embassy to China told Xinhua. |
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Strindberg's Works Available to Chinese
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| Works by the Swedish writer and dramatist Johan August Strindberg (1849-1912) have been published in Chinese for the first time, part of a series of events by the Swedish Embassy to celebrate his life. |
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Beijing Stages Music Festival
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| The Beijing Contemporary Music Festival has opened at the Central Conservatory of Music. Musicians from various countries will offer lectures to the students, and several concerts are scheduled to be held. |
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Film Festival Marks China's Century of Making Movies
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| The 11th Shanghai International Film Festival, scheduled for June 11 to 19, will highlight a number of Chinese movies and for the first time a new Special Achievements Award will be given to Chinese directors to mark the country's first century of filmmaking. |
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Strindberg in China
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| An audience of hundreds of Chinese was conquered by one Swede who held them rapt in a 40-minute solo show. The man was Reine Brynolfsson from the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theater/ Elverket and the play, the powerful monologue Paralysie Generale. |
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