In the late afternoon, the Pan Am charter approached the airport in Shanghai in heavy fog and rain. Nicholas Platt, the U.S. foreign service officer stationed in Beijing whose job was organizing tour ...

Reporters from Chinese media invited to Philadelphia, ask the Orchestra about U.S-China relations, and what China was like back during their first visit. Reporters for various Chinese media outlets ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with violinist Davyd Booth, who was part of the Philadelphia Orchestra's historic 1973 tour of China. The first time an American orchestra visited China, Western classical ...

If you want to understand why we’re not embarked on a new Cold War with Beijing, I suggest you watch a PBS documentary called “Beethoven in Beijing” — about the Philadelphia Orchestra’s unique ...