The 2024 Beijing International Puppet Festival opened at the Nanluo Theater in Beijing on Friday and will run through to Oct 6.
As Mid-Autumn Festival draws near, a traditional celebration of family reunions and the full harvest moon, restaurants and cafes across China are unveiling a wave of modern, innovative mooncakes. This year's offerings showcase a creative twist, blending contemporary tastes with classic elements.
Todos los Tonos y Ayres, a Spanish duo featuring musicians Abigail R. Horro and Ruben Garcia-Benito, performed in Beijing's Instituto Cervantes on Sept 3.
The number of travelers from Malaysia surged by 548.4 percent year-on-year during the first seven months of this year, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism reported.
A 10-minute excerpt of the original Chinese acrobatic drama A Thousand Years in One Finger was displayed during an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the discovery and excavation of the iconic Terracotta Warriors in Xi'an, the capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province, on Sept 8.
Wind Direction, a youth drama produced by China Central Television and streaming platform iQiyi among others, starts airing on CCTV-8, the television drama channel of CCTV, and iQiyi on Monday.
Chin Yew Sin, president of the Oriental Culture Research Centre, urged Asian countries to cooperate in protecting Asia's rich culture and heritage. He said, unlike the Western society advocating individualism, Asian countries have commonalities in collectivism, which serves as the basis for cooperation in protecting cultural heritage.
At the Cultural Heritage Conservation Forum, themed "Shared Heritage, Shared Future", held in Malaysia on Sept 5, Ivan Anthony Hernares, chairperson of the Southeast Asian Cultural Heritage Alliance and commissioner of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, said Southeast Asia lacks transboundary world heritage sites, highlighting the potential for shared maritime heritage nominations among its coastal nations.
The development of civilization should not only focus on infrastructure, economy, and technology but also enhance people's understanding and respect for different cultures, Mahfuz Anam, chairman of Asia News Network, editor-in-chief and publisher of Bangladesh’s The Daily Star, said on Thursday at the Forum on Cultural Heritage Conservation in Malaysia.
At the Forum on Cultural Heritage Conservation in Malaysia, Christina Yeo Ken-yin, the undersecretary of the International Relations Division (Culture) at the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture, emphasized the importance of each individual taking on the role of guardians of Asian civilizations.
For young Lin Huiyin (1904-1955), it truly was a case of being in the right place at the wrong time. The 20-year-old had traveled all the way from China to Pennsylvania, United States, no mean feat in the early 1920s, to attend the US state's eponymous university.
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