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...In contemporary art, names to know include Jiang Sheng: a young Xiamen-based artist continuing the art of Buddha sculpture: the sleek proportions of each piece give them a weightless, surreal feel....
...Its shares tumbled last week after its founder, Wang Xing, posted an ancient poem that some interpreted as a critique of Chinese president Xi Jinping....
...The sell-off occurred after Wang Xing, Meituan’s CEO, posted — and then quickly deleted — a verse from Zhang Jie, a Tang dynasty poet....
...Huanxi will soon release One Second, the latest movie from China’s most famous director, Zhang Yimou....
...He backed Xing Wang, founder of China’s biggest food delivery super app Meituan, but only after watching him establish two previous companies....
...Additional reporting by Archie Zhang in Beijing and Nobuko Juji in Tokyo Twitter: @hancocktom...
...It is said that there are as many as 50m children in China learning the piano, each hoping to follow Lang Lang on the road to glory....
...Zhang, 33, runs the courtyard branch of estate agency Shun Yi Xing in Beijing....
...“My friend Lang Lang [the superstar pianist] told me there are as many as 100m kids learning classical music in China,” says Davies....
...But the smaller and better-known Qiao Mansion gets more visitors, partly because it was here that Chinese film director Zhang Yimou shot some of his 1991 film, Raise the Red Lantern....
...When asked if Sotheby’s faces competition from Chinese auction houses, Xiaoming Zhang, the head of Sotheby’s Chinese contemporary art department in New York, immediately names Poly....
...It is a wild spoof of DW Griffith, Louis Feuillade, Fritz Lang, Leni Blue Light Riefenstahl: just about every brainstormer who wielded a movie camera before 1935....
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