The ongoing 20th Shanghai International Film Festival is showcasing around 500 acclaimed movies from 57 countries and regions. Xu Fan reports.
The coming-of-age action drama Fist & Faith recently released a seven-minute trailer — much longer than most of its counterparts — to lure Chinese youth, the country's major moviegoers.
Film Peace Breaker, the Chinese remake of the 2014 South Korean crime thriller A Hard Day, unites award-wining actors Aaron Kwok and Wang Qianyuan for the first time on big screen.
Phoenix Television has launched the Plane-Tree Project at the Phoenix Center in Beijing, aiming to set up an open stage that allows media services to cross all the fields and welcomes cooperation in any form. Phoenix believes that the Plane-Tree Project will lead the media to a new era.
British artist Gillian Ayres, 87, one of the most important living abstract painters, will make her China debut with an exhibition, Sailing off the Edge, in Beijing from July 30 to Aug 27. It will show paintings she has done since 1979.
A Chinese vase that auctioneers expected would sell for 1,200 euros ($1,336) has sold in Ireland for 740,000 euros ($825,000), an Irish record for a piece of art sold at auction.
A growing number of Chinese are using photo-editing apps to modify their photos and curate their images.
Frequently zooming in and out to the same photo, Zhu Ziyi spends half an hour airbrushing her face to make sure that almost every pore is perfect before posting the photo on her different social media accounts to attract likes. For her "picky" roommate, it takes all the time before going to bed to get an ideal photo with a perfect face.
The graduation ceremony could not have looked more American: a grand wood-paneled theater, beaming students in caps and gowns, a valedictorian speech and even dancers in leotards.
At 6 am every day, students gather at the Zijing sports ground of Tsinghua University in Beijing. After cheerfully greeting each other, they do warm-up exercises and then run as the sun rises.
Mask on her face and fins on her feet, Lu Wenjie dives into the water. As a veteran freediver, who does not use breathing apparatus, even in deep water, every dive is a unique exploration of the body and nature.
About 1,000 Chinese people will enjoy "red" road trips to Russia from June to September, the China National Tourism Administration announced at a news conference on Tuesday.