Tai chi is one of the most popular forms of exercise in China, especially for the elderly. The martial art, which combines slow and fluid movements, deep breathing and meditation, has been practiced in China for centuries
Léonore Baulac is the new principal dancer of the Paris Opera Ballet, one of the most selective ballet companies in the world alongside Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet and London's Royal Ballet.
Ding Hao, 30, who works in Beijing and Wuhan, is an up-and-coming artist who creates many eye-catching installations featuring an intricate architectural structure.
How has contemporary Chinese art been evolving over the past decade? The answer will be found at a contemporary ink exhibition that opens on June 1, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Although a photographer and painter by her own right, Dora Maar (1907-97) is better known as a lover and muse of Pablo Picasso.
More Chinese are customizing their journeys. Yang Feiyue discovers privacy and flexibility intersect with various price ranges to imbue value in increasingly popular personalized trips.
A woman is seen walking toward a spotlight onstage under which a circle is drawn in sand.
PALM BEACH, United States - An emerald-green 1970 Mercedes-Benz enters a red-brick driveway lined with swaying palm trees, a gentleman in white pants gets out, puts on his hat, softly flips his blazer, and walks into a hall of splendor. This is a common scene at the Breakers, a top-notch luxury hotel at Palm Beach, Florida. If we call Downton Abbey a period drama, then Palm Beach is a "period island" of the Gilded Age.
Theater from Inner Mongolia tours the Americas, but some urge greater marketing support for overseas visits. Yang Yang and Yuan Hui reports.
During a research trip to South Africa last summer, Zhang Chi visited several deprived areas to learn about the conditions facing the people who live in them. The first slum she visited was on the western outskirts of Cape Town, where the residents had built temporary shelters from sheets of iron and strips of linen on plots of deserted land.
A kite competition was held in Weifang in Shandong province.