Hu Xianmin is in the midst of carving the scenes of a famous oil painting onto a piece of teakwood the length of a snooker cue.
The Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci may have had grand designs to convert China to Christianity, but things turned out to be infinitely less simple.
SHIJIAZHUANG - Li Zhengjie says people in his village were born "shouldered" with a nearby ancient bridge. In his eyes, the 1,400-year-old Zhaozhou Bridge they have been so proud of has become a reason for their falling behind China's urbanization drive.
Capacity crowds flock to Los Angeles landmark to catch colorful lion dances and musical performances.
The Confucius Class of the Wellington East Girls' School held a special activity Feb 16 to teach students dragon and lion dances.
An art troupe from China, Little Red Flower, gave a performance in Preston, Britain on Feb 20. Mayor of Preston Brian Rollo and his wife attended the event, along with 700 locals.
A documentary that tells the story of Chinese artists in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, who paint perfect copies of great Western works of art, will be shown at the British Film Institute in London on Saturday, in celebration of Chinese New Year.
For Professor Stephen Angle, it was a college history course that led to his embrace of Confucianism and Chinese culture.
Two books from China have been named "The Most Beautiful Books in the World 2018" by the Stiftung Buchkunst at Leipzig, Germany.
A large number of visitors are attending the Dazhao Temple Fair in Hohhot, capital of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
Archaeologists excavating the ruins of China's largest Taoist temple have found that its structure bears a striking resemblance to that of palaces in Beijing's Forbidden City, the former imperial residence. Experts have cleared 5,000 square meters of the site at Longhu Mountain, Jiangxi province, where the main building of the Great Shangqing Palace was located before it was destroyed by a fire in 1930.
Archeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient city in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, believed to have been built some 2,000 years ago.
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