Characters coming alive

• Music helps the past and present tune in
• Designing a future in fashion
• Weight of early poetry felt through the ages
• Flowers from Palace Museum artifacts bloom on UN stamps
• Musical highlights famous poet's incredible transformation
• Chinese orchestra plans surprises for French, Austrian audiences
• Artist's show celebrates diversity of ink tradition
• Chinese cinema goes global: a new chapter at Cannes
• Tradition without borders
• Forum anticipates AI's impact on Sinology