From left: Mao Zezong, Asian Cultural Center curator; Wu Rujun, Beijing opera performer; Li Zhimin, director of press and public affairs office in Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in New York; and calligrapher Lin Zhongyang present a calligraphy piece as a gift to celebrate Wu's new opera Empress Wu Zetian, at a press conference at Asian Cultural Center in New York on Thursday. The new opera premiere is sponsored by Asian Cultural Center and will be showed in September in New York. Li Ang for China Daily