On Saturday, Ballad of the Dulong River and Bronze Cowrie Containers, a new poetry collection, was launched during a Beijing seminar organized by Poetry Periodical, Yunnan Education Publishing House, and Yunnan Writers' Association.
In recent years, Chinese cultural appeal has shown encouraging momentum globally. Dong Zhiling, founder and president of Facewhite, a Tokyo-based film distribution company specializing in bringing Chinese films to Japanese audiences, stresses the importance of communicating stories in a language the audience can truly understand.
At Expo 2025 Osaka in Japan, a bamboo forest rises from the ground, its slender stalks etched with flowing Chinese calligraphy, surrounded by the quiet hum of robotic hands and mechanical dogs. Bamboo Rhyme, an outdoor installation, was unveiled as the centerpiece of Zhejiang Week at the China Pavilion this month.
Weaving through the remains of a centuries-old watchtower, an agile four-legged robot checked the "health" of the ancient structure at Shanhaiguan Pass — a historic section of the Great Wall in Qinhuangdao city, North China's Hebei province.
More than 300 years ago, writer Pu Songling penned nearly 500 fantastical short stories — many centered on romances between human beings and spirits, ghosts, or otherworldly beings.
The Hong Kong romance movie Last Song for You made its North American debut at the 24th New York Asian Film Festival held at Manhattan's Lincoln Center from July 11 to 17.
Before I walked into the dance studio for a scheduled interview with singer-actor Liu Yuning, who was rehearsing for his upcoming concert, I hit an unexpected snag.
From the skull fossils of ancient humans to gleaming bronze vessels, from charred grains of prehistoric rice to exquisite embroidered silks, relics unearthed along the Yangtze River offer a glimpse into the evolution of life and culture along one of the world's greatest rivers.
In a dimly lit gallery in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, Zhou Jie stood before a life-sized plaster cast of a Pompeii victim, who was encased in volcanic ash nearly 2,000 years ago in what is now southern Italy.
When Alice Schoenfeld (1921-2019), an internationally acclaimed violinist and educator, visited Harbin in Heilongjiang province around a decade ago, she exclaimed, "It's a beautiful city. It's a beautiful country. This year's competition (takes place) in beautiful Harbin. It is a music city."
Unknown to many, Guyuan, a city in northwestern China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, was a strategic stronghold and intersection of cultures.
Miao artisans use their heritage training to inject vitality into local economies and cultural preservation efforts, Yang Feiyue reports.
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