A seventh-generation inheritor of Xiang embroidery is dedicated to the craft, report Wang Ru and Feng Zhiwei in Changsha.
In many ways, national highways are the arteries of a nation, as they form a network of interconnected routes that facilitate the flow of resources and people that keep the country moving.
Long queues of visitors formed outside the National Art Museum of China on a Sunday afternoon, despite Beijing being engulfed in the chills of early February, and people having to hold umbrellas to shelter from falling sleet. They all came for the same exhibition, Beauty in Greatness Through Details, which occupies all of the museum's halls and comprises 1,000 paintings, prints, watercolors and sculptures of smaller sizes. Some are from the collection of National Art Museum of China and are representative works of preeminent figures of the 20th-century Chinese art.
Classic Film Festival, an annual event held to highlight the significance of restoring old movies, was recently held in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu province on March 4.
Sixty-two amateur actors and actresses performed in a Chinese play, Teahouse, which was staged at the National Theater of China on March 4 and 5.
Growing up in a remote town in Northwest China's Gansu province, 12-year-old schoolgirl Liao Wenting was surprised to find that the head-mounted displays and robotics that she had seen in sci-fi films could be within arms' reach.
Bencao Gangmu, or Compendium of Materia Medica, a medical encyclopedia compiled by Li Shizhen, a Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) herbalist and pharmacist, has been transformed into a stage play, with science-fiction elements.
At the 35th Beijing Book Fair in late February, Cao Wenxuan, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2016, appeared at an event to launch the English and French translations of his short-story collection, Mom Is a Tree, and to talk about his ideas concerning the genre.
Works are promoted overseas to boost better knowledge of the country, Yang Yang reports.
From figurative method to expressionism and then abstractive art, Ma Lu, an eminent oil painter, has heralded a movement to build a distinctive language of painting in the scene of contemporary Chinese art.
A literature exhibition on the great Chinese ancient encyclopedia "Yongle Dadian" officially opened at the Lanzhou Museum in Northwest China's Gansu province on Tuesday.
When the curtain rose on the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Lohengrin on Feb 26, the audience got a taste of the Oscar-winning art director and costume designer Tim Yip's vision of Richard Wagner's romantic opera, which premiered in 1850 and was one of the highlights of the composer's career.