Alice Sara Ott closed her eyes for a moment before touching the piano keys, feeling the quiet energy of the Forbidden City Concert Hall around her. The German-Japanese pianist was back in Beijing on March 29 to share the music that had captivated her during the long months of lockdown in the days of the COVID-19 pandemic: the luminous nocturnes of John Field and the powerful, architectural landscapes of Beethoven. Each note was a personal story, each pause a space for connection with an audience that had waited as long as she had.
NANJING — On a brisk spring morning, thousands of runners in peach-blossom-themed shirts created a sea of pink, setting off along a 10-kilometer course winding through peach orchards, farmhouses and the soft glow of the season.
Tucked behind the gray-brick facades of Beijing's Dafangjia hutong (alleyway), a heavy wooden door opens into stillness. Inside Under Clouds Green, a plant-based Yunnan cuisine restaurant, the city's noise dissolves almost instantly.
Flower-viewing tours, rural trips and consumer demand for "experiences" reached a peak during the recent three-day Qingming Festival holiday.
China's porcelain legacy spans millennia. The nation itself bears its name, and through it, the world came to know China.
The original symphonic music drama A Dream of Red Mansions — Resound had its premiere on Friday in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, performed by the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra.
On Monday, conductor Christoph Poppen, pianist Luo Wei, and the China National Symphony Orchestra staged a concert at the Beijing Concert Hall to commemorate the 170th anniversary of Robert Schumann's death. The program was refreshing, full of romance and vitality.
The sixth season of the popular outdoor travel reality show HAHAHAHAHA premiered on Tencent Video and iQiyi on April 4, with weekly updates thereafter.
Visitors to Heiyoushan — literally Black Oil Hill — can dance and scream to cause bubbles to burble to the surface of pools of oil.
Cao Fei shares her influences, takeaways and focus
Inspired by decades of exploring the coexistence of humanity and technology, exhibition showcases China's development in farming advancements, Deng Zhangyu reports.
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