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...We discover the complex relationship between foreign influences and post-Communist Chinese cuisine, embodied in lousong tang or “Russian soup”....
...Xu Li is a fan of Yang Guo, the protagonist of bestselling Chinese novel The Return of the Condor Heroes, famed for lobbing a stone at a Mongol Khan, slaying the leader and halting an invasion from the country...
...Or Cai Guo-Qiang’s absolutely extraordinary leaping wolves and tigers cascading across a grand entrance hall? But these dream artefacts are for museums or billionaires....
...Additional reporting by Owen Guo...
...Additional reporting by Owen Guo in Beijing An earlier version of this story incorrectly spelt the name of Pietro Salini....
...By contrast, Guo Wenjing’s opening Folk Song Suite for string orchestra, and particularly his bamboo flute concerto Chou Kong Shan, a colourful symphonic portrait of Tang dynasty poet Li Bai’s descriptions...
...Chen Guo, lecturer in the morals and ethics of communism at Shanghai’s Fudan University, says party members are still meant to do “self-criticism” on a regular basis – which, she says, “can be compared with...
...Additional reporting by Lydia Guo in Hong Kong...
...Guo’s constantly inventive array of fiery rhythms and vibrant colours emanated primarily from soloist Tang Junqiao, a champion (though not the dedicatee) of Guo’s first concerto....
...The pot is in fact split in two; on one side the real hot stuff, or extremely spicy hong tang red soup, and on the other the much milder (so to speak) yuan wei concoction....
...From there to Guo Wenjing’s Concerto for bamboo flute was a leap in quality....
...Liu Guo’en, a management professor at Peking University, says it will be “a long process” but adds: “It is a big step forward for China.”...
...Tang Jianping’s Golden Lotus Flower and excerpts from Kuan Nai Chung’s Bewitching Braid Suite, both commissioned for the orchestra and heard here in their world premiere, were heavily atmospheric, capturing...
...Dragon-lantern, a premiere by the Hong Kong-born composer Tang Lok-Yin, opened the evening with a showcase for nine suonas, the Chinese double-reed trumpet, featuring HKCO principal Guo Yazhi and a pair...
...Its potential has been brilliantly showcased by Guo Wenjing’s Poet Li Ba i, the centrepiece of this year’s Beijing Music Festival....
...The designs of two students (Liu Wei Cheng and Guo Ze Han) will be available in Shanghai Tang’s London store in December....
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