Artist Huang Yongyu is known for his great vigor and versatility. He paints, writes, designs, creates prints and draws comics. And at 94, he has fallen into a new habit of art creation: carving figures on earthen "zisha" teapots.
Recipe: Dried Cabbage and Dried Fig Pork Bones Soup
Yang Luzi, 31, majored in philosophy during her undergraduate study at Harvard University before receiving a master's degree in the art of cinematic creation from California Institute of the Arts.
A shipwreck is like a museum - a time capsule filled with stories of the people aboard, the voyage they were undertaking and the age in which they lived. An ongoing exhibition at the China Maritime Museum offers a glimpse into the stories of ill-fated voyages through the export of porcelain from 11 shipwrecks.
Artist Wang Lei has spent the last three years documenting the Asian route of the ancient Silk Road by painting portraits of its people.
It is often said that Chinese civilization extends back 5,000 years. Now, after 15 years of intense research as part of a nationwide project to explore the origins of that civilization, archaeologists are able to back up that statement with solid physical evidence.
Visiting an ongoing exhibition at the Capital Museum is like reading a book about eastern Beijing's Tongzhou. It tells of the area's early glory and how it was rejuvenated thanks to a canal.
Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region received nearly 40,000 foreign tourists from January to April, up 50.5 percent compared with the previous year, regional authorities announced Sunday.
China's leading online travel agency Ctrip reported a surge in net income growth in the first quarter of this year, according to the company's unaudited financial results.
Xu Jiyuan couldn't have imagined that a small courtyard he built in the 1980s would become the prototype for the nongjiale - farmers' houses turned into "agritainment" destinations, primarily as diners, culture centers and homestays.
More than 3,700 activities will be held across China to celebrate this year's cultural and natural heritage day, which falls on June 9, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism Tuesday.
Nepal on Monday launched an interactive tourism website, the first of its kind, in Chinese language to attract more Chinese tourists.
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