An oil painting depicting three Chinese workers in Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) clothing and hairstyles, and working on a rocky cliff attracted Martha Davis' attention at a recent exhibition. Davis, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and her friend lingered in front of the painting.
LOS ANGELES - With a rapidly-modernizing film industry noted for recent hits that raked in huge box-office revenues, China's top filmmakers may finally be learning what it takes to spin a good yarn.
When director Wang Xiaoshuai was shooting his latest film So Long, My Son in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, there was a moment during one scene when he couldn't hold back his tears as he sat behind the monitor.
Imagine this: you wake up and find yourself standing in front of a huge rock. There are others around you who have been trying to push the rock.
Amadou & Mariam, a Grammy-nominated musical duo from Mali, began their first China tour at Tango Club in Beijing last Sunday.
Chinese couturier Guo Pei's exhibition, Couture Beyond, opened to the public this month at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana in Southern California, featuring 40 extraordinary creations from her most dramatic runway shows.
The organizer of the 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival on March 18 released an official poster that drew inspiration from a Monkey King-themed film Havoc in Heaven.
The 17th Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, China's only national-level documentary festival, has started accepting submissions worldwide.
ASEAN-China Centre (ACC) is scheduled to Collect ASEAN Short Stories and Information of ASEAN Cultural Festivals.
The fifth "French Gourmet" festival will be held on Mar 21 in over 150 countries all over the world.
"The old world should understand the new world, regarded by them as barbaric,because neither is barbaric nor even has been," says the prologue of the book General history of Peru by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.
[Russian guests attend the opening ceremony of the Palace Museum’s Flourishing 18th Century of China exhibition. Photo/ Chinese Embassy in Russia]