While folk music is no longer mainstream in China, some popular TV talent shows have recently brought it back into the spotlight.Here we choose seven popular young folk singers and their masterpieces in recent years.
Da Dong founder Dong Zhenxiang and 13 others have been named "food and beverage culture ambassadors" by the Beijing Food and Beverage Industry Association, a move to promote the capital's culinary industry.
The Shui script, known as the "living fossil" of pictograph characters, was used by the Shui ethnic group in Southwest China's Guizhou province. It's not only an important heritage of their ancient culture, but a written record of Shui history.
A three-week long festival was announced Wednesday in Liverpool to celebrate the release 50 years ago of the iconic album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
The National Center for the Performing Arts Orchestra will make its first foray into the Arab world by staging two concerts at the Abu Dhabi Festival on Friday and Saturday.
A Beijing-based 'anthropological photographer' zooms in on the people of the Great Rift Valley, where our species originated.
Chinese filmmakers are now seeking to tap the highly developed movie markets of North America and Europe. But what about the countries in China's neighborhood? Are Chinese films doing well there?
When singer Xu Weizhou (more popularly known as Timmy Xu) arrived at the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, he was astonished to see a frenzied mob of local fans screaming his name in Mandarin.
Taking fish oil supplements while pregnant will not result in smarter children, according to the results of a decade-long study by Australian researchers.
Researchers have found that sulforaphane, a dietary compound from broccoli that's known to help prevent prostate cancer, may work through its influence on long, non-coding RNAs, or lncRNAs.
Antioxidant supplements vitamin E and selenium -- taken alone or in combination -- did not prevent dementia in older men, a US study said Monday.
The International Telecommunication Union has adopted China's national standard for mobile devices' animation as an international criterion.