The pioneering French-Chinese abstract painter Chu Teh-chun (1920-2014), along with his fellow artists Zao Wou-ki and Wu Guanzhong, were once dubbed the "three musketeers", who were responsible for bringing Chinese art into the modern era via international recognition.
As part of the ongoing 2018 Beijing Design Week, the 2018 China-Europe International City Renewal Forum was held on Sept 25 at Lang Yuan Station in Beijing, which used to be a textile warehouse.
The seventh China National Kunqu Opera Art Festival is due to be held in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, in October, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced on Wednesday.
Visiting farms and participating in folk customs were popular activities for tourists during Mid-Autumn Festival holiday from Saturday to Monday, according to a report released by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Monday.
More than 70 exhibitors from both home and abroad recently joined the fourth annual Dice Con Board Game Convention in Beijing. There, visitors were able to try out a range of board games at tables before deciding whether to buy them. Other activities included the launch of new games.
Greater numbers of young Chinese are putting down their digital devices and finding social escapism in the diverse world of board games, Xu Lin reports.
A five-day Beijing International Design Week Expo kicked off on Sept 24 and attracted a number of visitors.
A total of 97.9 million tourists were received across China during the three-day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, which started Saturday, said the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT) Monday.
As an important part of Beijing Design Week, Design Expo Beijing is running from Sept 21 to 25 at the capital's National Agricultural Exhibition Center under the theme of "Design Beyond".
Four prestigious Japanese lacquerware masters recently appeared at the Sheng Sheng Lacquerware Exhibition in Beijing, where they offered a detailed discussion of their aesthetics and artistic expression.
Organized by the Open University of China (OUC), the 8th OUC-OUJ-KNOU International Seminar was held in Beijing between Sept 19 and 21. On the theme of "Online Teaching Development and Open University Innovation", participants from China, Japan, and the South Korea exchanged views on the issues including "teaching professionalism" and "course construction".
A drunken man talking to a mouse about his childhood, parents, ex-wife and his life's struggles opens the five-hour play, entitled Mo Fei.