The 16th International Piano Competition of Oleans, an important music event in France, has expanded to the Asia Pacific region for the first time this year, with the first phase of the competition taking place at Shanghai Conservatory of Music on May 11-12.
The Hong Kong Jockey Club and the Palace Museum in Beijing signed an agreement on Friday in the museum to launch a framework of long-term cooperation.
The Suzhou Symphony Orchestra is set to embark on a musical journey in Algeria from May 11 to 19, showcasing a harmonious fusion of cultural melodies.
Prize pictures from Madrid's Prado are largest exhibition by the museum in China to date, Zhang Kun reports.
The first edition of "Embracing Cultures" also digs deep into the distinctions between culture and civilization.
With technological paradigm shifts like AI sweeping the world, culture preservation is faced with many uncertainties. But both French writer Christine Cayol and cellist Chu Yi-Bing agree that technology can only act as a tool to serve people and in the arena of people-to-people exchanges, "culture is the real influential power".
Cayol has hosted and worked with various cross-culture exhibitions over the past two decades. In her eyes, Chinese and French people, especially in the art circle, have become closer and more engaged. She thinks that the best way to bridge cultural differences is dedicating time to explore and adopting a self-confident attitude.
Sino-French dance drama, result of years of collaboration, to tour China and France this year, Chen Nan reports.
Renowned Italian chef Niko Romito returns to Beijing and Shanghai this May, enchanting urban connoisseurs with an exclusive spring menu that embodies the essence of Italian culinary heritage, meticulously crafted for his esteemed restaurants in both cities.
Cayol says her over 20 years in Beijing have taught her a lot about time. She points out that Chinese people can be "very rapid" in getting things done and ‘very slow" when they want to enjoy life.
Christine Cayol, who has been living in Beijing for over two decades, stills gets lost sometimes in the labyrinthic hutong. She's not perturbed though, because "getting lost is a key point for embracing cultures".
China and Serbia have continuously deepened their bilateral economic and trade cooperation as well as people-to-people relationship.