Cecil Rhodes created the Rhodes Scholarship in 1903, with a view to seeing his scholars "esteem the performance of public duties as their highest aim".
Last year was a fruitful one for Chinese archaeologists. Finds provide a clear profile of the country's development.
An auction house in the United Kingdom is going ahead with the sale of a relic suspected to have been taken from Beijing’s Old Summer Palace in 1860, despite calls from China for the precious bronze artifact not to be sold.
China's national watchdog over cultural relics has called for a boycott of an upcoming auction in the United Kingdom of a suspected stolen Chinese bronze ware.
Hainan, China's island province, is again becoming a global focal point as the annual Boao Forum for Asia unfolds with political leaders, academics and entrepreneurs.
Zhang Lin, a 52-year-old artist in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province, is famous for her fine paintings made of fish skins.
The Palace Museum celebrates the late collector Zhang Boju's passion for ancient masterpieces.
Richard Wagner's only comic opera, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg－a coproduction of China's National Center for the Performing Arts, the Royal Opera House and Convent Garden from London and Opera Australia－will headline the NCPA Opera Festival.
Chinese artist Chen Chunmu uses various media to express thoughts and reflections on such social issues as environmental protection, urbanization and social development－and he wants viewers to look beyond the beauty of his works.
Contemporary popular cartoonist Gao Youjun, English name Tango Gao, is showing nearly 100 of his comics in Suzhou city, Jiangsu province.
Crustal deformation that took place billions of years ago resulted in a great rift valley between Mount Taishan and Culai Mountain, an underground valley that later turned into the biggest karst cave in the world.
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