On Saturday, a symposium held by the Hetian Yu ("Hotan jade") Trade Association of Xinjiang wrapped up at a Hotan jade museum in Beijing.
Chinese essayist and translator Lu Xun (1881-1936), and a leading figure in the New Culture Movement of the 1920s and conversations on reform in China, surely sits amid that tradition of voice creators.
The End of Heat, or Chu Shu in Chinese, is the 14th of the 24 solar terms in the Chinese lunar calendar.
Beijing International Book Fair opened Wednesday with a focus on China's reform and opening-up.
The Hong Kong Museum of Art announced on Wednesday that the family of the master of Chinese painting Wu Guanzhong has made another round of donations of Wu's invaluable works to the museum for its permanent collection.
A special exhibition of four years' preparation, "Empresses of China's Forbidden City: The art and life of the empresses of Qing Dynasty", is on display at the Peabody Essex Museum in Boston, US, covering the archetypes of historical characters in the popular Chinese TV series "Story of Yanxi Palace" and "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace".
Beijing-based British entrepreneur, Sarah Keenlyside, has tailored thousands of trips for celebrities, senior business managers and other international visitors to China.
The organizers behind the first graded tests for amateur pianists in Shanghai say they were searching for the people who took the test in 1988, the first year it was held in China.
While learning to play the piano remains as popular as ever among Chinese children, the reasons for doing so are continually evolving, Zhou Wenting reports in Shanghai.
China is home to a variety of handicrafts on as many mediums as one can imagine. And although some of them have died out, many remain alive thanks to innovations initiated by of artisans.
Jilin-born ink painter Liu Guang, 49, has produced almost works in almost all genres of classic Chinese painting. His birds and flowers, painted in the meticulous gongbi style on a circular piece of paper, recreate the grace of Song Dynasty (960-1279) art. And his landscapes and figure paintings convey a feeling of remoteness, and conform to the strict rules of painting. Liu’s paintings are now shown at a solo exhibition, titled The Sound of Mountains and Waters, at the Poly Art Museum in Beijing through Wednesday. The exhibition then will move to Shandong province, Hong Kong and Xiamen in Fujian province.
Chinese teenagers and young children these days take up a lot of extracurricular courses, both after school and on the weekend. And fine art training is one of the most favored among the non-academic programs.
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