The China Association of Higher Education recently played host to a forum on plans for reform of the college entrance exam (or gaokao). The forum, held in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province on Dec 21, marked the 40th anniversary of the resumption of the gaokao this year.
The National Center for the Performing Arts' recent open house serves as a microcosm of how the venue has popularized high-end performances over the past decade. Chen Nan reports.
The Polish Circles of Art in China Festival wrapped up in Beijing with a concert held at the Beijing Concert Hall on Dec 20, featuring Chinese violinist Chen Xi and Polish pianist Grzegorz Niemczuk.
Works from the mid-1800s that had great impact on Chinese art are being shown in China for the first time. Zhang Kun reports from Shanghai.
A Shenzhen State-owned enterprise has teamed up with Britain's V&A to create a new cultural hub dedicated to design on the city's seafront. Lin Qi reports.
A new art exhibition titled Cultures and Generations: Founders and Heirs of Chinese and Hungarian Modern Art, featuring 100 paintings and sculptures, is currently running at the National Szechenyi Library in the Hungarian capital of Budapest.
The year of 2017 has marked a significant milestone in Cambodia-China tourism relations as China became the biggest source of foreign tourists to Cambodia after it overtook Vietnam in the first quarter of the year, said Cambodian Tourism Minister Thong Khon.
Following the fruitful BRICS National Summit held in Xiamen, Fujian province in September, South China was greeted by another international cultural gathering last week in Zhuhai of Guangdong province, marking a big step toward literary communication among the BRICS nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
To showcase the diversity of Chinese folk art and offer a glimpse of the age-old craft of "mawei" embroidery, the China Cultural Center in Benin hosted a series of workshops for local people to experience the ethnic culture of Guangxi province from Dec 15-20.
Conductor Tang Muhai (right) and erhu (two-stringed fiddle) player Song Fei will be featured in Tianjin Grand Theater's upcoming performance season. [Photo by Zou Hong/China Daily]
Artists performs at the 10th anniversary gala of Kuke Music in Beijing. [Photo provided to China Daily]
People like to pursue perfection: perfect makeup, perfectly matching clothes, perfect selfie. But Italian fashion brand Diesel's fall/winter 2017/2018 campaign aims to "go with the flaw".