Students and professors met for the Fudan-UC Center's annual Social Sciences & China Studies Young Scholar's Conference at University of California, San Diego, on May 20 to 21.
Hosted by the Beijing municipal government, this year's "World Photographers Focusing on Beijing" opens on May 23 in the Capital Museum. In the following week, 20 photographers from 16 countries will try and capture the beauty of the city using their lenses.
Softness. Subtleness. Sophistication. Celebrated Serbian artist Mirjana Mit. Stojkovic's paintings offer these qualities through the stroke of a brush and in one artistic subject - leaves.
Starting with a solo of Stravinsky's Fireworks Op. 4, world-famed Chinese pianist Lang Lang gave a passionate performance in the packed Chicago Symphony Center.
With the theme "Dreams Enlighten the Future", the 15th Chinese Bridge Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students Kenya Division was held in Nairobi.
A two-day Sino-French cultural forum, with 150 guests from France participating in 11 sub-forums, will be held in Beijing starting May 26.
Mauritius: Heaven on Earth, a travel book written by Chinese diplomats in Mauritius, was released in its second edition in Beijing on Friday.
In almost every image of China's former leader Mao Zedong, he wore a simple shirt or jacket, in gray or brown. But there was an image on China's National Day, on October 10, 1957, where he put on his shoulders a cloak made of hundreds of feathers.
A Chinese professor and translator has called for the training of more professional translators in an effort to strengthen cultural exchanges between China and the West.
A six-day photo exhibition opened on South Korea's southern island of Jeju on Friday to promote the China-South Korea year of tourism and boost people-to-people exchanges between two countries.
Musical genius Mozart will have his life story told through a German musical in Shanghai this Christmas.
The musician, who comes from a prominent family of makers of such musical instruments in Beijing, has spent decades giving the sheng a modern relevance.