What was life like for Chinese soldiers 1,200 years ago? How did they guard the border? What did they do after work and how did they escape the summer heat?
The pandemic might have battered the domestic film scene, but major industry players have already kicked into high gear to help revive the market's fortunes, Zhang Kun reports in Shanghai.
After closing for nearly six months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Shanghai Tianshan Cinema was among the country's first batch of cinemas that reopened to the public on July 20.
Nepal has opened Qomolangma and other Himalayan peaks from Thursday after a shutdown that had lasted for four and a half months, according to a Tourism Department official.
China's film industry shows early signs of recovery as cinemas reopen amid the pandemic, Xu Fan reports.
US celebrated singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens has been appointed the next artistic director of Silkroad, a not-for-profit organization initiated by Chinese American cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," the first movie in the popular Harry Potter series, will return to China with a 3D version on Aug 14.
Tan Dun conducted for the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra at the closing concert of the Music in the Summer Air (MISA) festival on July 29, presenting his own composition Dunhuang: Buddha Passion.
Among a row of village houses with grey walls and wooden doors, a two-story building stands out not just for its height but also for the words hanging at the entrance: "Jiahe Museum."
Anyone who has read the book Lost Horizon by James Hilton must have been enchanted by Shangri-La, a paradise on earth in Southwest China.
The China Cultural Center in Laos has launched the original food entertainment program Laotian Cooks Chinese Food, running from June 25 to November 25.
Fewer A-list stars will stumble out of parties along the lagoon to be snapped by paparazzi in boats. But organisers of this year's Venice film festival are promising plenty of movies -- on actual screens in front of actual audiences -- for the first time since the worldwide panvdemic shut showbiz.