As we have grappled with COVID-19 over the past year, for many people the world over the arrival of spring anywhere has held hopes of the worst being over and for new beginnings.
Pipa virtuoso Wu Man has made a new album with shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) performer Kojiro Umezaki. The album, titled Flow, was released on Feb 19.
A small bowl bought for $35 in a yard sale in the US turned out to be a rare Chinese ceramic from the Ming Dynasty (1384-1644) worth up to half a million dollars.
36 paintings, featuring folk art in the culturally rich Shanxi province and Chinese paintings in an elaborate style, are exhibited at the Slovakian embassy in Beijing to enhance cultural ties between China and Slovakia.
The China Cultural Center in Tokyo and Japan Global Association held an art exhibition featuring works by two Chinese and Japanese artists from Feb 17 to March 1.
The China Cultural Center in Singapore and Singapore Dingyi Music Company held a concert to celebrate the Chinese New Year on Feb 27.
The celebration, hosted by the Australia China Friendship Society (ACFS) Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Branch Inc, was believed to be one of the biggest outdoor events in the city ever since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 25th Mois de la Francophonie will kick off on March 1, and run through the end of the month. With the theme of "to tell", a series of over 50 French events will take place in 20 cities around China, inviting people to tell their French stories, and also to listen and communicate with other people.
A store in Fiji celebrates the Chinese Lantern Festival on Feb 25, 2021. Jack's is a chain store in Suva, capital city of Fiji. It mainly sells tourist items, with the Chinese one of the main customers.
Spending his weeklong Spring Festival holiday visiting relatives, setting off firecrackers, eating local specialties and lazing in the warm sunshine, Balthazar Boyer was able to feel a festive ambience in Wuhan.
The first Confucius Institute in the Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG) was inaugurated in the country's second largest city of Lae on Saturday.
Pandas live only on a few high and damp mountains in Southwest China, where they feast mainly on bamboo leaves and shoots. They bear loads of symbolic meaning in the Chinese culture and pretty much everyone in the world agrees that they are adorably cute.
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