A steaming plate of South African boerewors with a side of chakalaka gravy is served at this quaint restaurant in a northeastern corner of Beijing, while a playlist of kwaito, Afrikaans treffers (hit songs) and house music plays in the background. Artworks of African wildlife adorn the walls and a chalkboard promises delicacies like ostrich steak. On the bar counter, the flags of China and South Africa hang side-by-side.
A celebration was held on Wednesday in Guangzhou, Guangdong province to mark the 65th anniversary of the creation of the Smurfs, the blue three-apple high creatures.
The 14th Beijing Olympic City Sports Culture Festival kicked off at the scenic area of Juyongguan Great Wall in Beijing on Wednesday.
Under the baton of resident conductor Ouyang Wangjian, the Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra performed four original Chinese symphonic compositions for the 36th China Harbin Summer Festival on Tuesday.
Quality traditional Chinese costumes are gaining popularity at home and abroad, triggering increased orders on e-commerce platforms.
Three buildings, a theater, a museum, and a library, are expected to be completed and ready for acceptance inspection by the end of September, according to local authorities of Tongzhou district in Beijing.
With a total of 132 movies, including films set to be released in the coming weeks, China's summer season box office has raked in a whopping 17 billion yuan ($2.3 billion), signaling a remarkable recovery.
During the premiere of his upcoming film Papa in Beijing on Tuesday, director and scriptwriter Su Liang revealed that he had "infiltrated" parents in search of realistic details for the movie during school breaks.
Wang Bo, who lives and works in Beijing, is well versed in using vibrant colors, in a bold way, to explore the relations between time and space, complexity and simplicity, by which he hopes to challenge people's established aesthetic views.
In 2011, when harpist Wang Guan launched a summer camp program at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing as part of the Gateway to Arts Summer Festival, there were only 30 students and none of whom knew anything about the harp.
The China-Kenya film festival was launched Monday night at an upscale shopping mall north of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, with senior officials renewing calls for enhanced Sino-Kenyan cultural ties.
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