An initiation ceremony for an exhibition celebrating Chinese symphonies was held in Beijing on May 19.
Cultural exchanges and integration between Japan and China have been developing like the flow of a great river, and museums and art galleries are the carriers of Japanese and Chinese culture, said Motoaki Kono, curator of the Seikado Bunko Art Museum, as he marked International Museum Day on May 18.
During the last six years, Academy Award-winning composer Tan Dun has traveled to the ancient city of Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province, multiple times to study and document the Mogao Caves.
When Yannick Nezet-Seguin, music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, packed his bags for his trip to China with the orchestra, he included a pink T-shirt with a picture of a little shiba inu on it.
Artists from 13 countries show works and designs that celebrate the variety of their own cultural accumulation, as well as a shared craftsmanship that stresses persistence, flexibility, mutual respect and learning.
Throughout the decades, Wu Weishan, director of the National Art Museum of China, and a sculptor in his own right, has built a unique language of sculpture by introducing the Chinese artistic philosophy of xieyi (depicting spirit) into his work.
The Kyrgyz pavilion at the Beijing Horticulture Expo offers insights into not only the Central Asian country's endemic flora but also its people, Yang Feiyue reports.
Holding two bamboo mallets, one in each hand, and alternately hitting the strings on a trapezoid-shaped wooden instrument, Liu Yuening is consumed by the reverberating notes.
For Oscar-winning composer Tan Dun, his ideas about traditional Chinese cultural values - such as loyalty, righteousness and honesty - often derive from the stories his grandparents told him when he was a child.
Metropolis show-cases culinary skill alongside Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations.
At a press conference held by China International Publishing Groupon May 17, it was announced that the 15th Beijing-Tokyo Forum will be held in the Chinese capital in October.
The Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei Symphony Orchestras have partnered to form an art alliance, which aims to promote the development of the classical music scene in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei — or Jingjinji — area.
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