Twenty years ago, when composer Dai Yisheng, along with scriptwriter Zhang Yonghe and director Gu Wei, created Snuff Bottles, a Quju Opera work produced by Beijing Quju Opera Troupe, she didn't expect that the show would save Quju Opera, a local operatic form developed in the 1950s in Beijing, from extinction.
Beijing launched its third annual autumn auction season for cultural relics on Wednesday.
"The Masters of Shapes and Colors", an exhibition in Beijing combining Chinese paintings and French sculpture, is the first co-exhibit between the two artists and marks a cultural exchange between the countries.
Priceless national treasures are among the historic relics in a new exhibition that kicked off Tuesday at the China National Silk Museum in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province.
Chinese archeologists have found more than 1,800 ancient cliff paintings in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province.
An opera theater in Jiangxi province will stage the Miguel de Cervantes classic in Chinese and with performers wearing traditional face paint.
A photo exhibition tracing decades of China's development is on display at the Shanghai Center of Photography. Grain to Pixel: A Story of Photography in China features signature camera works by 70 artists and documents dramatic changes in the country.
A series of photos featuring wild life were issued on Sept 15 by the Chinese Embassy in Washington D.C. in the United States.
"My first job is that of a porter, carrying bags for my wife. Then I'm a cook and then I'm a conductor," he tells China Daily in a recent interview in Beijing.
A girl of Russian-Chinese descent is being described as "an angel of friendship and peace" in Suifenhe city of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province.
National Ballet of China seeks to tell the story of a woman who died protecting the birds. Chen Jie reports.
Beijing's Palace Museum - located in the Forbidden City - is bringing out the best of its treasures for 90th-Anniversary commemorations. Among the highlights are the Stone Moat collection, comprising ancient China's renowned painters and calligraphers.
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