New graffiti with the theme of love created by Chinese and foreign artists are seen in the Tian'ai Road which is also called the "love road" in Shanghai on Jan 7, 2015.
With the upcoming Year of the Monkey, a variety of gold, monkey-related products have sprung up all over China.
Cagar Monastery was built in the year of 1160, and it is one of the places that Milarepa, the Kagyu master, practicing Tibetan Buddhism.
At 73, Donald Stone has been an avid collector for nearly six decades. His treasures vary from drawings and prints of Western masters, such as Raphael and Picasso, to Chinese antiquities from the Shang Dynasty (c.16th century-11th century BC).
The island of Jersey in the English Channel, an autonomous dependency of the British crown, is among the first to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Year of the Monkey, with the release of a stamp issue on Jan 5 designed by Beijing illustrator Wang Huming.
An exhibition to show the archaeological finds of Qin culture and Xirong culture before the Qin Dynasty (221 – 201 BC) was kicked off on Thursday in Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum in Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province.
Chinese collector Lin Hao shows his copper Chinese Zodiac stamps dating back to Song and Qing dynasties in Fuzhou, Southeast China's Fujian province on Jan 5, 2016. Different seal scripts are inscribed on each stamp.
A gold plate is excavated at a historical site in Pengshan, Southwest China's Sichuan province, Jan 5, 2016. Zhang Xianzhong (1606-47), the leader of a peasant revolt during the end of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), sank numerous boats filled with treasures in an area covering about one million square meters near a wharf in Pengshan.
Zhangying Art Gallery was inaugurated at the Xianying Temple in Shijingshan district of Beijing on Dec 31, 2015.
Chinese netizens are excited by the upcoming "Horse month of the Monkey year" based on the lunar calendar, leading many to joke on social media.
As one of the few live shows with a revolutionary theme in the country, it has become a major draw for tourists who visit Shaoshan to pay tribute to Mao Zedong.
Finn Erling Kydland is a Norwegian economist. He is the Henley Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.