The COVID-19 pandemic and the global response to it have severely limited public celebration of this year's World Book Day but online activities are still underway to promote the power of reading which the United Nations believes should be leveraged more than ever at a time of lockdown.
Interest in chess is thriving on the esports scene as more and more gamers stream online.
Just because you can't go out to the physical art fairs doesn't mean you shouldn't dress for the occasion.
The first installment of the biannual Shanghai Fashion Week this year was undeterred by the ongoing pandemic, shifting all its shows online through a collaboration with e-commerce giant Alibaba in a move that has drawn plaudits, He Qi reports in Shanghai.
Shanghai Ballet director Xin Lili is determined to premiere the company's contemporary production, Inspire III: Fragments of Memory, even if the COVID-19 epidemic prevents audiences from attending the show at the Shanghai International Dance Center.
Starting from China, traveling through 24 countries and clocking up more than 28,000 kilometers, Li Shaoying, a 35-year-old designer, faced the long road alone on her motorbike. But her adventure abruptly stopped in Morocco as the African country has been practically in lockdown since mid-March due
Thursday marked the 25th World Book and Copyright Day. It should have been a big occasion for the National Library of China to unveil the annual Wenjin Book Award-one of the country's highest-level literary prizes.
About ten Chinese publishers joined a campaign to solicit children's books about the ongoing fight against novel coronavirus and make them online free for global readers.
A short video program which gathers celebrities and ordinary people to discuss how to deal with nuisances they face in daily life has been airing on Tencent's video platform since April 23.
An online exhibition featuring nearly 50 items related to China's achievements in aerospace will open Friday to mark the 50th anniversary of the launch of Dongfanghong-1, the country's first satellite.
April 23rd marks the 25th World Book and Copyright Day as well as the 456th birth anniversary of William Shakespeare, who is widely considered to be one of the greatest dramatists of all time.
The National Library of China (NLC) has launched a national memory project to document the country's battle against the COVID-19 epidemic.