In the quiet hour before dawn, when Baisha ancient town still slumbers at the foot of Yulong Snow Mountain in Lijiang, Yunnan province, 57-year-old Yang Zhijian begins his daily work.
When Du Xiaofan from Fudan University first visited Loushang, an ancient village in Guizhou province, in 2015, he was captivated by its scenic beauty and relatively intact architecture preserved over centuries.
Amid the aroma wafting from book pages, the exhibition hall in the National Library of China in Beijing evokes a sense of the chanting sounds that worship Confucian sage wisdom in ancient classics throughout Chinese history.
Inside his Marscloud Art Gallery in Manassas, Virginia, Kuang Lin doesn't begin by talking about brushwork, composition, or color. Instead, he talks like an investigator, pointing to what he considers evidence.
Beijing is among the easiest cities to explore, according to Waad Melliti, senior business manager at the World Tourism Cities Federation.
On a winter evening in Liaoning province, Lu Jun opens China's streaming app QQ Music, types in a few lines, and waits. Seconds later, a finished track is generated, including song lyrics that adhere to both melody and rhyme, and compositions that are coherent and structurally consistent.
For generations, traditional Chinese medicine arrived with ceremony as dried roots and peels carefully measured from wooden drawers, taken home, and simmered in a slow, bitter ritual that demanded attention when the body called for care.
Imagine waking up strapped to a chair, face to face with a judge who informs you that you've been accused of murder — and unless you can prove your innocence within 90 minutes, you will be executed immediately.
The Yangtze River, the longest river in China, has nurtured rich and diverse cultures along its 6,300-kilometer course. For producer and director Sun Lu, it became the driving force behind the documentary Because of the Yangtze River, which explores why this great river has served as the cradle of Chinese civilization and how it has shaped the lives of its people along its banks.
Marking A-list actor Eddie Peng's latest film, the upcoming crime comedy Busted Water Pipes is scheduled to open in domestic theaters on Jan 23.
The world's first immersive musical theater adaptation of the award-winning animation series Immersive Arcane is set to debut in downtown Shanghai.
What if you could hold a perfect replica of a book more than 100 years old in your hands, feel its weight and texture, trace the raised ink on paper, and pause over a scholar's margin note as clear as if it had been written yesterday?