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.
Zhu Zhiwen appeared clean cut when he first set out to ultimately cycle 54,000 kilometers through 34 countries on three continents years ago.
Although August is a low season for tourism in Morocco, the North African nation's hot weather hasn't slowed the pace of Chinese arrivals.
Qi Baishi, the late ink artist, won the hearts of generations of Chinese with his paintings in two main styles - gongbi, where details of the subject are captured by brush strokes, and xieyi, a more sketch-like approach. His works depict butterflies, bees, dragonflies and birds in the gongbi style, amid flowers, fruits and vegetables in the xieyi style.
Gavin the meme boy who has taken the Internet by storm with his uncopiable reaction faces, landed in China on Saturday for a surprise visit that was eagerly awaited by Chinese fans who could not wait to create more memes while he tours China.
The Sichuan Provincial Bureau of Cultural Heritage recently said that it had inspected two ancient stone carvings of Buddha in response to an online outcry about their condition.
Music, especially classical music, expresses the most subtle and noble feelings commonly shared by humans, echoing the beat of every heart despite differences in nationalities and cultures.
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