A new kind of reality show that dispenses with judges and focuses on indie acts is providing the soundtrack of the summer, Chen Nan reports.
Chinese political advisors during a consultation session Friday offered proposals on building a cultural belt along the Grand Canal to protect it.
A well-preserved Neolithic settlement site has been discovered in east China's Shandong province, local archaeological authorities said.
Visitor arrivals to Macao totaled 3.43 million in April, up by 15.9 percent year-on-year, the special administrative region (SAR)'s statistic service said here on Thursday.
When Reginald Johnston, a British scholar, first walked into the Forbidden City in the spring of 1919, the vast walled enclosure in the heart of Beijing was "in the strictest sense 'forbidden' to all the world except those who had the entree."
In China, food has always played a major role in promoting social cohesion. Communal eating is not only familybased and deeply rooted in the nation's cultural heritage, but is also regarded as an indicator of society's health and stability.
During the last six years, Academy Award-winning composer Tan Dun has traveled to the ancient city of Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province, multiple times to study and document the Mogao Caves.
Throughout the decades, Wu Weishan, director of the National Art Museum of China, and a sculptor in his own right, has built a unique language of sculpture by introducing the Chinese artistic philosophy of xieyi (depicting spirit) into his work.
Holding two bamboo mallets, one in each hand, and alternately hitting the strings on a trapezoid-shaped wooden instrument, Liu Yuening is consumed by the reverberating notes.
At a press conference held by China International Publishing Groupon May 17, it was announced that the 15th Beijing-Tokyo Forum will be held in the Chinese capital in October.
The Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei Symphony Orchestras have partnered to form an art alliance, which aims to promote the development of the classical music scene in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei — or Jingjinji — area.
Directors, writers and actors are coming together to bring theater arts to Daliangshan, a mountainous region in Sichuan province, with the inaugural Daliangshan International Theatre Festival which is due to open in November.