With their wild energetic style music that was centuries old, a farmers ensemble from Northwest China has delivered one surprising moment after another to audiences along the way of their ongoing US tour.
It's nothing new that an artist might be inspired by indigenous art from other lands considering Pablo Picasso's masterpiece Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), which was said to be influenced by African sculptures. However, it is rare for an artist to spend half a lifetime living with aborigines in the wilds of a foreign land just to learn the essence of their traditional art and use it as the seedbed for their own work.
If you want to see the origins of Cantonese cuisine, you must visit Shunde district in Foshan city, Guangdong province.
After a 15-hour overnight journey from Beijing onboard an olden-day green train, when a colleague and I arrived at a station in Dongsheng district of Ordos city on a weekday morning in early March, the air outside the railway premises felt cooler than the Chinese capital but not as cold as I had expected Inner Mongolia to be at such a time of the year.
Vast stretches along Expressway 216, which connects urban Ordos to its rural Otog Front Banner, lie uninhabited. More animals than people can be found in this part of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region where trucks carrying coal are often the only sighted vehicles on the highway.
A foundation that aims to better protect China's intangible cultural heritage was launched at Tsinghua University in Beijing on Thursday.
Four of Peking Opera artist Zhang Huoding's students will take center stage at the Tianqiao Performing Arts Center in Beijing to show the charm and inheritance of the time-honored opera form among China's younger generation.
A rare antique Chinese Ding Bowl was sold for over 4.2 million U.S. dollars Thursday at Christie's in New York.
No websites should produce or spread items that distort, mock or defame classic literary and art works, according to a circular released by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) on Thursday.
International food fans and organizations have shown a keen interest in contacting a new association for the renowned Chinese snack known as jianbing guozi - deep-fried dough sticks rolled in a thin pancake. The association was established this month in Tianjin, the snack's birthplace.
It is Saturday, when Australian writer Richard Flanagan meets Yu Hua for the first time during an event at a Beijing bookstore. They seem to find a lot in common and any third person is unnecessary in their exchanges. They just know the right questions to ask one another.
With its cross-cultural themes, the first Chinese edition of fantasy writer Ken Liu's genre-defying Dandelion Dynasty series looks set to beguile mainland readers. Yang Yang reports.
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