HAIKOU — "A whale is stranded in the shallows and in critical condition!" This distress call had barely come through when Li Haiqin, 49, grabbed his life jacket and first-aid kit and rushed to the scene.
The lights suddenly went out, and the audience fell silent. The drummer raised her sticks, held them aloft for a split second, then brought them crashing down.
In Kaizhou district, Southwest China's Chongqing, the One Yuan Theater is transforming access to the arts with its innovative model.
Laobacha, literally "old dad tea", is a teahouse tradition unique to South China's Hainan province. Serving tea alongside an abundant spread of pastries, dim sum and local snacks, it has become a symbol of the island's easygoing lifestyle.
Pianist and poet Ju Xiaofu released his new album, Mist Without, worldwide on July 10.
The Spring Wind Greens Kekeya, an original song-and-dance drama, was staged in Beijing on July 9.
At this summer's first performance of the children's play Tong You Shan Hai, or Journey Through the Classic of Mountains and Seas, a young girl in a pink dress walked onto the stage. The cast, led by the fox character Xiaojiu, invited the audience to sing Happy Birthday.
Acrobats perform daring stunts on top of a high pole, stilt walkers dressed as mythological creatures walk the streets, and two "lions" compete for a bamboo ball to the cheers of the crowd.
Standing beside the blazing kilns of Jingdezhen, China's thousand-year-old porcelain capital, in 2023, Turkish ceramic artist Adil Can Guven watched flawless porcelain emerge from fires raging at 1,300
A physician's diaries illuminate a family's past and destiny during the revolutionary era, Zhang Yi and Hu Meidong report in Fuzhou.
Loyal followers of fashion and couture will undoubtedly have their minds blown by the dazzling court costumes of ancient China's Imperial Palace hundreds of years ago.
Significant display highlights historical aesthetics, bringing hundreds of Mawangdui treasures into an immersive digital experience, Zhang Kun reports.