After nearly a decade in China over two diplomatic postings, Tinatin Shishinashvili thought there was little left to surprise her. Then she stopped at a booth displaying a blue-and-white teacup — one that any visitor to Turkiye would recognize instantly as the country's iconic tulipshaped tea glass, rendered here in Jingdezhen's signature cobalt glaze.
In a rehearsal room in Beijing, the Montagues and Capulets — the two feuding families in the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare — no longer speak in Verona's streets.
How do you turn a story everyone already thinks they know into something that feels new — especially when that story is as familiar as Wukong Thrice Confronts Lady Whitebone, a classic episode of Journey to the West, and the form is comic opera, a genre that demands both musical rigor and theatrical wit?
A cultural exchange event themed "Global Linking of Dunhuang Culture" was recently held in Ottawa.
When dusk falls over Qingyun Hutong (or alleyway), beside Sanlihe River Park in Beijing's Qianmen area, pushing open a weathered wooden door produces a subtle but decisive shift in time.
Known as the "Grassland at the Edge of the Sky", Ulagai Grassland in Inner Mongolia is one of its best-preserved natural grasslands.
Travel professionals see continued growth opportunities for the Asia-Pacific travel industry over the next two to three years, with China remaining a key market for both inbound and outbound travel, according to an industry report.
China and Austria are joining forces to launch an international choral week in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, bringing together choirs, music experts and cultural institutions from around the world for a cross-cultural celebration of choral music.
The exhibition Han Jades of the Chu Royal House: Fine Artifacts from the Chu Principality of the Western Han Dynasty, jointly organized by the Beijing Archaeological Site Museum and the Xuzhou Museum in Jiangsu province, was officially opened to the public on Friday at the Beijing Archaeological Site Museum.
A new cultural and commercial destination in central Beijing is inviting visitors to step back in time with life-size recreations of the city's streets and neighborhoods from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Glorious Journey, Paintings of the Era, an exhibition mounted by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, opened at the Museum of the Communist Party of China in Beijing on July 1, marking the 105th anniversary of the CPC.