Liu Shuang, a 39-year-old artist from Shanghai, received the Oondajie Prize for Portraiture on Friday, the highest award from the 2020 exhibition of the British Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
After reviewing the auction results in and out of China, we've rounded up the 13 Chinese artworks that fetched over 100 million yuan in 2020, with three of them surpassing the 200 million yuan mark.
Last summer, Ne Zha -- a retelling of a household myth from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) novel Investiture of the Gods -- unexpectedly reversed a slowdown in the summer market, becoming the highest-grossing animated film of all time in China.
It's physically impossible to get to the forest fight scene that takes place above a bamboo forest in the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and not let out some kind of verbal exclamation.
Film sector recovering after challenging year and could write a script for other countries to emerge from the downturn that caused such box-office havoc.
The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Winter Solstice (Chinese: 冬至), the 22nd solar term of the year, begins this year on Dec 21.
The kidnapping and killing of a Chinese student in the US soon after she took up studies there in 2017 sentenced those who loved her to a lifetime without her. Had she still been living she would have celebrated her 30th birthday on Dec 21.
When rock singer-songwriter Xie Tianxiao launched his first album in 1999, he soon won popular acclaim as titles like "King of Live" and the "New Godfather of Chinese Rock 'n' Roll" were bestowed by appreciative fans.
New album gives Clarity to various influences, says guitarist
To honor foreigners who have made contributions to sharing Chinese culture with the world and promoting communication between Chinese and foreign civilizations, the ceremony for the 14th Special Book Award of China was held in Beijing on Friday.
Hong Kong megastar Andy Lau will return to Chinese silver screen with his latest crime thriller Shock Wave 2, which will open across theaters on Dec 24.
2020 has been a quite unusual year. With the world still battling the pandemic during its winter wave, Wonder Woman 1984 has become the latest Hollywood tentpole to hold an online premiere with Chinese fans. In the past, domestic audiences were usually able to see the stars in-person on red carpets
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