Harbin Ice and Snow World: China's coolest festival, in photos

The famed LED-lit winter wonderland is now on in northeast China

And you thought your snow fort was cool

Harbin's Ice and Snow World, the highlight of the northeast Chinese city's annual winter festival, kicked off earlier this month. The incredible sculptures are made out of massive blocks of ice pulled from the local Songhua River and lit up with colorful LED lights.

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A music video that I made about desperate living in Shanghai in the 1930's. Shanghai was one of the world's hotspots for jazz music and also for other hybrids of Eastern and Western popular culture. A great example of Shanghai's creative power in the Jazz Age is the dress that Ruan Lingyu is wearing in this video. It is a style that was created in Shanghai in the 1920's and is still in use today. It is the lovely cheongsam or qipao dress. Unfortunately Zhou Xuan and Ruan Lingyu both had very tragic lives. From Wikipedia: "After introducing "Nightlife in Shanghai" (夜上海), Zhou returned to Shanghai. She spent the next few years in and out of mental institutions owing to frequent breakdowns. Through the years, Zhou led a complicated and unhappy life marked by her failed marriages, illegitimate children and suicide attempts." She died in an institution in Shanghai in 1953 at the age of 39, possibly of encephalitis. and about Ruan Lingyu: "Her next film, Shennü (神女, The Goddess, 1934; dir: Wu Yonggang), is often hailed as the pinnacle of Chinese silent cinema, with Ruan's portrayal of a sympathetic prostitute bringing up a child one of the classics of the era. Later that year, Ruan made her penultimate film, New Women (新女性), with director Cai Chusheng, where she played an educated Shanghai woman forced to death by an unfeeling society. A final film, National Custom (國風) was released shortly after her death. Death - Following the completion of New Women, Ruan's life ...

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