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Movie mogul buys Picasso at NY auction for nearly $30m

2015-05-09 02:04

Chinese movie mogul Wang Zhongjun paid $29.9 million for a Picasso painting auctioned off from the Goldwyn family collection at Sotheby’s in New York on Tuesday.

Dutch collector: mummified Buddha will return to China

2015-05-08 17:46

Through a social network, Dutch private collector Oscar van Overeem, who owns the 1,000-year-old Buddha statue with a mummified monk inside, said recently he is willing to return the relic to China.

Greek embassy holds Open Day in Beijing

2015-05-08 17:17

Open Day with Greek tourism as its theme was held at the Embassy of Greece in Beijing on May 7.

Faye Wong to complete an unfinished song of Teresa Teng

2015-05-08 16:17

Hong Kong pop singer Faye Wong is to complete a song left unfinished by Taiwan singer Teresa Teng, who died 20 years.

Chinese media mogul Wang Zhongjun buys Picasso portrait

2015-05-08 10:30

The chairman of Huayi Brothers Media Wang Zhongjun purchased Pablo Picasso’s Femme Au Chignon Dans Un Fauteuil for $29.93 million at the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York on Tuesday.

Cultural heritage found buried in Beijing

2015-05-08 10:16

Tongzhou Tuqiao (earth paved bridge), part of the historical Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in Beijing’s Tongzhou district, has been discovered under a modern residential community, according to Beijing Youth Daily.

China gains popularity among Kazakh people

2015-05-08 09:54

More and more Kazakh students are learning Chinese, especially after the founding of the first Confucius Institute in Kazakhstan nine years ago.

A Chinese pianist can tell her good shows from bad

2015-05-08 07:46

Like many girls, Zuo Zhang loved Barbie dolls when she was a child. However, when her mother took her to buy a present for her third birthday, she chose a piano over a doll.

Restored Thousand-hand Bodhisattva to reopen next month

2015-05-07 15:43

After a seven-year restoration, the statue of Qianshou Guanyin (Thousand-hand Bodhisattva), on Mount Baoding in the Dazu district of Chongqing municipality, will reopen to the public on June 13, Chinese Cultural Heritage Day.

Surprise winners

2015-05-07 07:51

Ticket buyers take films unpopular with critics to the top of the box office during the recent three-day holiday. Xu Fan explores why.

Stolen Buddha sculpture head to unite with the body at Taiwan exhibition

2015-05-06 16:51

An ancient Buddhist sculpture will be reunited with its head more than a decade and a half after it was stolen.

About 200 historic villages documented in China

2015-05-03 17:29

Over 200 traditional Chinese villages have been surveyed and documented, a State Council consultant said on Sunday.

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