For Wuken Shawuerhan, a fourth-year student at Dalian University of Foreign Languages, making films has always been one of his favorite things to do. When it came time for him to choose a topic for his graduation project, he decided to make a video about his hometown, Habahe county of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, to answer questions he has been asked many times and reveal what Xinjiang really looks like. In doing so, the youth of the Kazakh ethnic group highlighted one of the most important events of the year in his hometown: the Winter Slaughter Festival.
Gathering some of China's most commercially successful filmmakers, the Golden Key Project -- a new movie pitch program launched in June -- has recently announced it will cut the red tape to help young talent release their directorial efforts in a shorter span of time.
Soul Whispers, an ongoing exhibition showing dozens of paintings by Zhang Jiangzhou, a member of China National Academy of Painting, expresses the artist's thoughts on the relations between people and cities, and between humankind and nature.
Prosperous and Peaceful, an exhibition at the China National Academy of Painting until Aug 12, brings together 100 figure paintings by 100 artists from across the country. It is one of a series of exhibition the academy has staged to mark the centennial of the Communist Party of China this year. The show opens up a dialog on the future development of the ink figure paintings.
With up to 6,543 actors, an unprecedented cast scale for a domestic TV program, the anthology series Faith Makes Great recently concluded its first run, receiving widespread acclaim.
The China Foundation for Cultural Heritage Conservation and Tencent Foundation have jointly established a fund in Beijing on Monday to better protect traditional Chinese villages from fire.
A book signing and panel discussion of the novel, Pipawei, recently published by Jiangxi People's Publishing House, was held at the 30th National Book Expo in Jinan, East China's Shandong province, on July 15.
A livestreamed dialogue was hosted last Friday to discuss the new book Dynamism by economist and Nobel Prize laureate Edmund Phelps, and the broader topic of "how innovation can inspire social dynamism".
With preparations lasting over two years, the upcoming epic film The Battle at Lake Changjin recruited more than 12,000 actors, crew workers and extras, making it one of the largest Chinese films in recent years according to producers who spoke at a recent event in Beijing.
Organizers of the first International Bingxin Literature Award have encouraged the public to submit literary works.
As director Leste Chen's latest outing, the coming-of-age film Upcoming Summer has grossed nearly 150 million yuan ($23.2 million) during its opening weekend and is currently the second highest-grossing film in China.
The resident show at Shanghai Circus World, ERA, starts its second edition featuring a slew of upgrades including new visual projections, costume designs and stunts, on July 29.