Folk arts and handicrafts are artistic expressions of farmland laborers, embodying their emotional attachment to the soil. The lifestyles associated with these laborers may be waning, but museums are celebrating their aesthetics.
HAIKOU — As evening sets in, the lights at the Sanya Football Park flicker on one by one. On the pitch, a coach completes a short warm-up session, then stands and signals for training to continue. Nearby, several children gather around, listening intently.
Many people might not realize that one basic life necessity has lost control: meals. With so many online shopping platforms, people have discovered the freedom to get anything they want quickly and at a reasonable price.
Its white feathers carried a soft pink sheen, its slender neck formed a gentle curve, and when it spread its wings, it looked like a dancer in the sky. Artist Yanzi recalled her first encounter with the crested ibis.
In a digital lab at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Zhao Haiying, professor at the university's artificial intelligence college, studies an intricate emblem glowing on her computer screen.
In 2015, Lu Jie received a gift that would shape the next decade of her life: a CD of Peking Opera master Mei Baojiu (1934-2016), son of the legendary Mei Lanfang (1894-1961), performing Taizhen Waizhuan (The Anecdotes of Taizhen).
A style of calligraphy once used to record one of ancient China's most ambitious scholarly projects is being brought back to life — not on silk or paper, but on screens, posters and mobile phones.
The 15th Cross-Strait and Hong Kong Film Directors' Symposium concluded earlier this month in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, releasing a shared vision to enhance cooperation and exchanges among filmmakers from the Chinese mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao.
US artist Jen Blazina opened her Asian debut exhibition at the Liuli China Museum in Shanghai. The exhibition, Glass as Time, Memory in Recasting Form - Jen Blazina Solo Exhibition, presents 15 works by the artist and will run from Jan 15 to Feb 28.
How did ancient Chinese scholars travel to the capital for the imperial examination? A new interactive installation at Gathering Talents Around the Land — The Imperial Examination Culture of Ancient China, the renovated permanent exhibition of Beijing's Confucian Temple and Guozijian (Imperial College) Museum, provides the answer.
An ongoing exhibition explores how contemporary craftsmanship is redefining lifestyle aesthetics by integrating creative approaches to traditional handicrafts.
Mark Brownlow, a veteran director known for the BBC's award-winning Frozen Planet II and Blue Planet II, has faced danger numerous times in his decades-long career as a wildlife filmmaker. Surprisingly, the creature that once filled him with more unease than any other was the horse.