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Grammy Award winner, orchestra enthrall jazz fans

2024-10-10 15:31

The 27th Beijing International Music Festival brought a highly anticipated event: Grammy Award winner and jazz trumpet master Wynton Marsalis, along with the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, performed two distinctive jazz concerts at the National Centre for the Performing Arts on Wednesday and Thursday.

The 8th China ICH Expo

2024-10-10 11:45

The eighth China Intangible Cultural Heritage Expo will open in Jinan, East China's Shandong province during Oct 17-21.

Stage plot offers twist on hide and seek

2024-10-10 11:43

The theatrical production Hide and Seek by Hiu Kok Theatre, one of the most established theater groups in Macao, will be staged at Beijing's Cao Yu Theater from Oct 18 to 20 as part of the ongoing Beijing People's Art Theatre International Drama Invitation Exhibition.

One Man's Long March staged in Beijing

2024-10-10 09:16

One Man's Long March, a stage production narrating the story of a muleteer returning a box of gold to the Red Army during the Long March, was staged at the Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center on Oct 2 and 3.

Chinese Culture Festival held in Chicago after 4-year hiatus

2024-10-10 09:04

The seventh Annual Chinese Culture Festival, co-hosted by Chicago Public Schools and Phoenix Tree Publishing, the North American subsidiary of Beijing Language and Culture University Press, took place at Whitney Young Magnet High School, Chicago, on Saturday.

Findings at new site unlock stories of Xia Dynasty

2024-10-10 07:54

For archaeologists who are dedicated to decoding the early stages of how a nation was formed in China, looking for clues of the Xia Dynasty (c. 21st century-16th century BC) has been a focal point.

Tracing the origins of Confucian inspiration

2024-10-10 07:51

Exhibition delves into the very essence of his teachings and how they shaped a nation, Wang Kaihao reports.

Acrobatics show traces history of Zhejiang

2024-10-09 16:06

Wu Yang, a show by the acrobatics troupe under Zhejiang Performing Arts Group, was staged in Beijing on Tuesday, as part of the fifth celebration of the art company.

A new generation's passion for heritage and arts

2024-10-09 07:56

Young enthusiasts are seeking to revive and modernize traditional Chinese art forms, blending innovation with heritage to appeal to a new generation, Gui Qian reports.

Beijing festival draws top international musicians

2024-10-08 20:33

French pianist, Hélène Grimaud, and chamber orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, staged a concert at Beijing’s Poly Theater on Monday.

In the footsteps of history

2024-10-08 20:26

Liu Yutian, 82, packed his bag and started to hike the Badaling section of the Great Wall in Yanqing, Beijing on Sept 30 to commemorate a special achievement. This year marks the 40th anniversary of Liu's hike along most of the Great Wall which began on May 13, 1984 in Jiayuguan, the western end of the Ming (1368-1644) Great Wall in Gansu province. A year and eight months later, Liu reached the Shanhaiguan Great Wall in Hebei province, completing his solo walk.

'Role models' portrayed in artworks

2024-10-08 20:11

In a period of nearly five months earlier this year, members of the teaching faculty of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, in Beijing, visited people who have been recognized as "role models" and "master craftsman" in different trades in Shanghai, and portrayed them in various forms of art. Now, these paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and digital works, some 200 pieces depicting 75 figures, are on show at Shanghai Workers' Cultural Palace to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and to pay tribute to these endeavoring at the grassroots, from different walks of life.

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