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...“China’s venture market was very, very different last year,” said Zhou Xiang, head of Mingde Capital Advisors, which helps start-ups raise funding....
...Sichuan tourist Xiang and his wife had been spending Rmb20,000 ($2,872) a day on average on their week-long trip and his mood had not been damped by losses at the Grand Lisboa’s tables....
...“The Egyptians referred to peridot as the ‘gem of the sun’,” says Haiyang Yu, chair of Fuli....
...HECG aimed to become “a world class coal company”, Chen Xiang'en, the group’s president at the time, said of its pivot to high-end chemical products, which would eventually cause heavy losses for the company...
...Yu Xiang, a 22-year-old construction worker, was able to travel from Yichang, near the Three Gorges Dam in western Hubei, to Wuhan on Monday....
...Ant’s Xiang Hu Bao, mutual aid platform, borrows from the co-operative model: a member diagnosed with one of 100 critical illnesses is paid up to Rmb300,000 ($44,600), the cost borne by other members....
...Performances by Yang Chi as Xiang Yu and Ding Xiao-Jun as his favoured concubine Yu Ji veered between standard Peking opera vocal-instrumental interplay and quasi-cinematic underscoring by composer Xing...
...The action, based on the story of the besieged warlord Xiang Yu and his self-sacrificing concubine, was tough to follow and it was far too long (two hours, no interval), but my goodness it was gorgeous....
...Opera productions these days are regularly upstaged by projections, but rarely has such a high-profile premiere had its context so thoroughly shaken as Jin Xiang’s Sunrise at the China’s National Centre...
...Dramatically, Wang became the Chu warlord Xiang Yu, Xiao Di his concubine, with the music reimagining the original tale in symphonic terms much as, say, Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet reimagines Shakespeare...
...Additional reporting by Gu Yu Jamil Anderlini is the FT’s Beijing bureau chief Gu Yu is a former FT news assistant Photographs: Graeme Nicol; Reuters A series of FT reports on China’s great migration...
...Back in Chengdu, in 2002, Lan and his wife opened the Village Cook (Xiang Chuzi), an unpretentious family business serving hearty folk dishes such as sour-and-hot buckwheat noodles and spicy tofu....
...One April evening in the Sichuanese capital Chengdu, chef Yu Bo and his wife invited me for supper. They insisted that we ate spring rolls, which were then in season....
...Unlike younger, better-known Chinese composers whose childhoods were shaped by the Cultural Revolution, Jin Xiang had finished his musical training before his world collapsed....
...Tenor Wei Song once again played a general (Xiang Yu) competing to rule China, though baritone Yang Xiaoyong (Fan Zeng), his rival in Xi Shi, was now an ally....
...And off the catwalk, China’s glamorati came out to play: as well as socialites and celebrities from the world of entertainment, guests also included Liu Xiang, the 110m hurdler (and the first Chinese to...
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