A sunlit loft in Long Island City houses a miniature world stitched together by time. Hand-carved puppets, silk costumes and calligraphy brushes sit beside projectors, laptops and stage lights.
Late August saw Guangzhou transform into a living stage for verse, where voices from across continents converged in celebration of poetry's power to bridge cultures.
"One will always notice that as societies advance toward civility and refinement, people tend to build impressive structures before they learn to cultivate gardens with care and elegance."
William Chambers (1723-96) wrote in his landmark Enlightenment-era book, A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening (1772): "Such is the common scenery of the Chinese gardens … their artists never fail to improve upon its singularities: their aim is to excite a great variety of passions in the mind of spectators; and the fertility of their imagination, always upon the stretch in search of novelty, furnishes them with a thousand artifices to accomplish that aim."
As the credits rolled on the Chinese film Dead to Rights in a German cinema on the evening of Aug 28, Sarah Bahadra sat completely stunned, her eyes glistening. In a voice barely above a whisper, she says she was overwhelmed, describing the film as "too sad …really horrible".
Diplomats recently gathered at the embassy of the Argentine Republic in Beijing to launch the second edition of the LAC UNITED soccer initiative, which brings together representatives from 15 Latin American and Caribbean embassies in China.
Chinese and French TV and film professionals met at the China Culture Center in Paris on Monday to discuss Sino-French cooperation in audiovisual creation.
To further expand the inbound tourism market from Malaysia and Southeast Asia to Central China's Hubei province, as well as to deepen cultural and tourism cooperation between Hubei and Malaysia, the "Zhiyin Hubei, Majestic Yangtze" tourism promotion event was held in Kuala Lumpur on Sept 5.
At the International Ceramic Studio of China's Jingdezhen Ceramic University, Turkish artist Pelin Dal meticulously fires shards in a spectrum of glazes before reassembling them into striking new forms, blending Turkiye's traditional mosaic techniques with the art of porcelain.
Sometimes, the most profound and moving connections are born in the simplest places — a modest kitchen, a family dining table, or a heartfelt book.
The second International Youth Poetry Festival—Special Session for Latin American countries is slated to begin on Sept 15 in Xi’an, Shaanxi province.
On Sept 5, a group of Nepali students performed a classical Bharatanatyam dance at the Capital Museum in Beijing.
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