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What does it feel like to insert evergreen pine branches into the bronzes of ancient China’s Western Zhou Dynasty (1046-771 BC)? Recently, a special art show is taking place at the Wang Chuanfeng Museum in the Ginza district in downtown Tokyo. Wang Chuanfeng, a Chinese artist who has been living in Japan for almost 30 years, inserted peony, orchid and …

Kicking off its third year, the Sobre la Armonía public art workshop will open in Chengdu, Southwest China’s Sichuan Province soon. In 2018, the workshop was launched with participation from Chinese and Spanish artists in the city Barcelona, where it left behind a new sculpture park. The following year, the workshop toured to Chengdu, where it also established an international …

Five science fiction works received 2020 Gravity Awards through voting by Chinese readers and the results were announced at the 78th World Science Fiction Convention. The books all focus on real issues. Yu Lei, a science fiction critic with the Future Affairs Administration, said in an article that compared with last year’s award-winning novels, this year’s works have clearly shifted …

The Chinese mainland premiere of war film 1917 was held in Beijing on Tuesday. Critics who attended the premiere gave the film high compliments, saying that the film was worth the half-a-year wait. The movie was released outside China at the end of 2019 and in early 2020, but when all Chinese mainland cinemas were closed down due to the …

The Walt Disney Company on Tuesday reported its quarterly earnings were hit hard as the pandemic emptied theme parks and cruise ships, while it hit a new milestone for streaming subscriptions. The entertainment colossus said it lost $4.7 billion in revenue of $11.8 billion – about half of the amount of money it took in during the same period in …

From biblical plague to modern day protein, one Israeli firm wants to make locusts a sustainable food choice in the Holy Land and beyond. As for whether or not the insects are kosher, the answer is not so simple. At Hargol Foodtech’s farm in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, a rectangular enclosure that once served as a chicken coop is filled …

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan said Sunday he had been discharged from the hospital, three weeks after being admitted with “mild” coronavirus symptoms after testing positive for the disease. The news came as powerful Indian Home Minister Amit Shah revealed he had tested positive for coronavirus, which is infecting tens of thousands of people a day – and killing hundreds – …

The official Sina Weibo account of film The Eight Hundred announced on Sunday that the film will debut in theaters on August 21. After being delayed in 2019 for technique problems, the film is set to be the first major Chinese blockbuster to be released in cinemas since the COVID-19 outbreak. The Eight Hundred, directed by Guan Hu, mainly tells …

It has been 187 days since Chinese artist Shu Yong started to record Chinese people’s efforts to fight the COVID-19 epidemic. All of his paintings inspired by these efforts went on display on Friday at the Shanghai Baopu Art Museum, the second stop on the artist’s Tribute to Heroes exhibition tour following Changsha in Central China’s Hunan Province. Starting from …

More than 100 crews have returned to work at China’s version of Hollywood, Hengdian World Studios in East China’s Zhejiang Province. According to reports, since July a total of 48 crews have started filming, while 63 crews are in preproduction. All told, the number of crews at China’s biggest film base has tripled compared to March and has increased by …