The 40th session of the World Heritage Committee held in Istanbul on Sunday decided to put China's Hubei Shennongjia on the prestigious World Heritage List as a natural site, bringing to 50 the number of listed Chinese properties.
China's largest Tibetan sutra-printing house, in Sichuan province's Dege County, is to get its own museum to exhibit and preserve the centuries-old wooden printing blocks.
Shanghai-based artist Yang Fudong is to create a video work for the Rolls-Royce Art Program, which he will launch at the Shanghai Center of Photography in the West Bund art compound around the end of this year.
The Huashan rock painting, from Guangxi province, has been listed on the World Heritage List at the UNESCO World Heritage Committee’s 40th Session in Istanbul, Turkey, today.
Silk Road and Russian Ethnic Cultural Heritage, an exhibition underway at the National Museum of China, displays dozens of artifacts in testimony to the role of the northern route of Silk Road that ran through the southern regions of European and Russia.
Ten individuals from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Macao are among 73 recipients of this year's Asian Cultural Council fellowships, which exceed $1.2 million worldwide.
A upcoming movie event aims to bring young talents from China and abroad together.
An exhibition featuring Detective Conan series creator Aoyama Gōshō's manuscript of this comic series will be held in Beijing from today to Aug 28. It is the first time the documents will be showcased in China.
Dozens of traditional Chinese folding fans are on display at the Hongbao Tang, an antique store at Beijing's time-honored Liulichang hutong.
Eugene Clark brings an international legal perspective to many China projects and institutions, Liu Xiangrui reports.
For Qiao Changsheng, 63, the dramatic change from getting satisfaction from hacking down more trees to devoting himself to guarding a natural forest was mostly a passive one at first.
Next month, Fan Weiqing and 14 female students will play guzheng in Beijing. Here, she speaks about how she fell in love with the traditional instrument and what she is doing to share its music.
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