The Shanghai-based private Long Museum acquired an ink painting by modern master Pan Tianshou at a Beijing sale on Monday night, at the price of 93.15 million yuan ($14.5 million).
An untitled "blackboard" work by Cy Twombly sold for a record-setting $70.5 million at Sotheby's on Wednesday, leading the way to a $295 million total at the auction house's sale of contemporary and post-war art.
Chinese archaeologists claimed on Saturday to have unearthed a portrait of Confucius from a tomb in Jiangxi province that is at least 2,000 years old.
Tourists and local residents enjoy during a traditional festival in Honghe county of Hani-Yi atonomous pefecture of Honghe, Nov 13, 2015.
A straw art festival was held in Taohuayuan Scenic Area.
Young Chinese people are becoming more interested in learning Arabic as the Belt and Road initiative begins to generate jobs and business opportunities.
Renovation work on an ancient Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Northwest China's Qinghai province, which was damaged after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake in Yushu Tibetan autonomous prefecture on April 14, 2010, is now complete.
Traditional culture in Asia is a precious treasure that should be well preserved and developed through enhanced exchanges between countries, said Nobel laureate Mo Yan.
Qiang ethnic group gather to celebrate their New Year in Beichuan county, Southwest China's Sichuan province, on Thursday. The New Year of Qiang ethnic group fell on Nov 12 this year.
Chinese archaeologists excavating a noted Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - 24 AD) cemetery in East China's Jiangxi Province have unearthed two 2,000-year-old bronze lamps that can "swallow" smoke.
Musicians from the National Ballet of China Symphony Orchestra present featured classical music pieces from each of the permanent members of the UN Security Council in Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Nov 12, 2015.
Great Seed Inc, a start-up and intangible cultural heritage online community, ended their "Paper Culture Along the Silk Road" documentary investigation.
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