The Badaling Great Wall in Beijing's Yanqing district has unveiled a slew of activities to help visitors usher in the new year.
As the New Year approaches, a slate of films is gearing up to compete at the box office for the lucrative festival season.
The ongoing exhibition at the China Art Museum, Shanghai presents the art and educational career of Xin Dongwang, an important artist of Chinese realistic oil painting.
The National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing celebrated the 17th anniversary of its inauguration with an Open Day Festival on Dec 22 by hosting 15 performances and more than 50 cultural activities at its three sites — the NCPA, the Beijing Performing Arts Centre and the NCPA Taihu Stage Art Centre.
A street dance show and a competition initiated by the China Oriental Street Dance Group were held in Beijing on Dec 21.
Chinese fans of the fantastic world of Middle-earth, created by English writer J.R.R. Tolkien, recently had their enthusiasm re-ignited by the release of the new animated film The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim.
The book, titled Zhu Lin, the Queen of Drama, chronicles how she, a poor girl with a fighting spirit, strove to be a shining star under the spotlight of theater, and later hailed as "queen of Chinese drama". Pu wrote the book's preface.
Reddish fruits such as pomegranate have been favored motifs of painters for their beautiful color that symbolizes vigor and prosperity.
In 1977, China resumed national college entrance exams after they had been suspended for more than a decade. Despite the chilly winter weather, over 5.7 million people eager to resume their studies made their way to exam halls in December that year.
A concert of Chen Zeya's music was staged by the Asia Philharmonic Orchestra in Beijing on Dec 22.
When asked to helm the film Burning Stars, director Xu Zhanxiong for the first time delved into the history of Shanghai University, an institution that nurtured talents for both the Communist Party of China and the Kuomintang during their first alliance to end the era of warlords in the 1920s.
The 10th International Award for Art Criticism (IAAC 10) announced its prize winners at Jiushi Art Museum in Shanghai recently.