I attended the opening of the “Dreaming through 6 Centuries” exhibition and Kunqu Opera performance at the Beijing Overseas Cultural Exchange Centre on Tuesday, 30 May. A huge segmented opera mask sculpture fronted the cultural centre. Right away, I could see similar...
In April, I visited the 2023 Beijing Art Expo, titled REUNION. The first booth was the International Children’s Alliance Fund for Intangible Cultural Heritage, jointly sponsored and established by 21 families. Artworks from youths as young as 6 showed intelligent...
My grandmother often cautioned that an empty bag cannot stand up when I attempted to do homework/studies without fortification. On days requiring physical strength or endurance, the adage changed to ‘an army marches on its stomach.’ In everyday context, this statement...
We spent roughly a week in Shaanxi Province, visiting Yan’an and Xi’an cities. We were primarily there to cover the 2-day China-Central Asia Summit on 18-19 May in Xi’an, a meeting critical toward a stable, prosperous, harmonious, interconnected Central Asia through...
During the extended Labour holiday, I took the subway and walked 2 blocks to the National Art Museum of China, anticipating art stimulation of my grey matter. I was stopped by museum security, who very kindly said, no reservation, no entry. Nutz. A week later was the...
