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CHINESE film director Zhang Yimou's 12-year obsession with Puccini's opera Turandot reached its apogee at the Bird's Nest National Stadium in Beijing on Tuesday night in a breathtaking $20 million combination of music and spectacle.

In this article: Zhang Yimou, Turandot, China, Forbidden City, Sandwich, Sydney Symphony, and Carmen

There are clubs and more informal "parties" in the various bars. Artists from Beijing and Shanghai have summer houses here; film director Zhang Yimou is a regular visitor. In short, there's a scene. But Dali is also on the map for...

In this article: Kunming, China, Tax, Sichuan, and Asia

...Chinese Fall at Carnegie Hall With the spectacular ceremonies for the Olympics in Beijing last year, China made a dazzling debut on the world stage, showing off its potential supremacy in the new millennium. Three top Chinese "go-to"...

In this article: Carnegie Hall, Zhang Yimou, China, Fortune cookie, and Shen Wei

Zhang Yimou fears rain for Beijing opening ceremony BEIJING (Reuters) - Zhang Yimou, the director of the opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics, is struggling to fit 5,000 years of Chinese culture into 50 minutes and his biggest fear is...

In this article: Zhang Yimou, China, God, Beijing Olympics, International Olympic Committee, Steven Spielberg, Raise the Red Lantern, and Darfur

...Opera on 21 December 2006. 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies Zhang was chosen to direct the Beijing portion of the closing Ceremonies of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, as well as the Opening Ceremony...

In this article: Zhang Yimou, Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Raise the Red Lantern, Hero, Ju Dou, Zhang Jigang, China, Red Sorghum, and Academy Awards

...later, the same director made Hero, a paean to the autocratic rule of China's first emperor. Beijing promptly lobbied for it to win an Oscar. Mr Zhang went on to direct last year's Olympic ceremony. On Thursday, he will produce a...

In this article: China, Zhang Yimou, Deng Xiaoping, To Live, The Communist Party, Communism, Collectivism, Oscar, and Great Leap Forward

...to their aid. There will be no transport of any kind in the area - all too believable since for some time now the weekend rehearsals of the show have shut down public transport across a substantial section of central Beijing. Tomorrow's...

In this article: The Communist Party, People's Republic of China, Dictatorship of the proletariat, JavaScript, Great Leap Forward, and Anti-Rightist Movement

...vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and China's Zhang Yimou, who directed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. In an interview to mark the award, Mr Obama tried to answer the question of what the...

In this article: Barack Obama, Time Magazine, 2008 Summer Olympics, Zhang Yimou, Sarah Palin, Nicolas Sarkozy, US, and China

...clear evidence that Beijing and Hong Kong are now in firm embrace. Zhang Yimou's 2002 film Hero was also approved by Beijing, even if Miramax put up a lot of the money. In many ways, Hero was this film's forerunner. Red Cliff is like Hero...

In this article: Red Cliff, John Woo, Hero, Zhou Yu, Sun Quan, Cao Cao, Hong Kong, Liu Bei, and Zhuge Liang