A song and dance gala, which made its debut in 1964, will be staged at the Great Hall of the People to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Long March.
The 10th National Exhibition of Chinese Hue Art to be opened on Dec 22 in Beijing will gather works of some 44 artists who are active in the realm of contemporary art. Their works, created since 2013, incorporate the style of gongbi tradition but embrace an experimental spirit.
Singer Li Yugang launched his latest tour in Beijing on Dec 17 at the Workers' Gymnasium to mark the 10th anniversary of his music career.
A survey on how people around the world perceive a range of issues relating to war indicates overwhelming agreement that wars should have limits.
China's Alibaba Pictures announced on Dec 16 it will begin shooting the fantasy epic film Gu Jian Qi Tan, or Legend of the Ancient Sword, and it is scheduled to be screened in 2018.
Beijing-based artist Zhang Jing, 37, features an animation character named Diu Diu in her paintings and sculptures. It looks weak, heavyhearted and lonely, and Zhang places it in various fantasy settings to indicate the sensitiveness and innocence of her generation.
Artist Yang Kai's ongoing exhibition Passions of Silence is held at Beijing's Today Art Museum until Jan 3.
Guangzhou-based artist Xu Dongsheng is showcasing dozens of his oil paintings at a solo exhibition titled Fleeting Light, Floating Life, at Beijing's Today Art Museum through Jan 3.
As winter arrives in northern Anatolia, the best season to cut red dogwood branches for making traditional canes is approaching.
Autumn Hunting of Yuan People, which failed to find a buyer at a Beijing Poly auction in 2007, will go under the hammer on Thursday.
Roger Owen finds the engineering students he met on his most recent visits to China were a lot more talkative than those he first encountered in the mid-1980s.
The bad taste joke of this holiday season is that back in January everyone thought the worst thing that could happen in 2016 was the death of David Bowie.