Hundreds of Bangladeshi music lovers were recently enthralled by the wonderful performance of the Jiangdu Spring Drum Art Troupe from China and they clapped and waved energetically as musicians played.
KIEV - Celebrations for the upcoming Spring Festival started in Ukraine with a ceremonial reception in Kiev last Tuesday, bringing Chinese and Ukrainian officials and businessmen together.
JINAN - A cherubic child holding a big fish, a giant tree bearing golden coins as fruit, or delicate woodblock paintings are all often hung at homes during the Chinese Lunar New Year. For many Chinese, bright-colored woodblock paintings, which are hung at almost every door, windows and walls for festival decorations, are quite time-limited. As soon as the parties come to an end, these print works are at once thrown away.
Chinese Cultural Minister Luo Shugang said Thursday in Ottawa that the first meeting of the China-Canada Joint Committee on Culture will open new channels for institutionalized, systematic and in-depth cultural exchanges between China and Canada. He also noted it will help build a new platform for the two countries' cultural cooperation and bring new vitality to the cultural ties.
"The first time I set foot in China in 1971, I had a hunch my life was doomed to be changed thanks to this magic land," says Mudawi Omer Alibilal, director of the Sudan National Acrobatic Troupe.
China is divided into as many culinary regions as there are different ethnic groups. Its geographical diversity and kaleidoscopic cultural profiles contribute to the unending banquet of flavors.
Xi Jiangyue has one of the hardest jobs of the evening. As show host he has to break the ice with what may be a demanding audience, lulling them into the right mood for the comedians who will appear later. After the pleasantries come the inevitable gags.
Quiet, introverted and timid in front of strangers, twice a week she decides to hop out of her cozy cocoon, and the person who emerges, commanding center stage, is a performer named Xiao Wu, a rare woman in the tough world of Beijing stand-up comedy.
With a mindset that favors the reserved thinking of the collective, some reckon that Chinese have traditionally found it difficult to laugh at themselves. Four decades after the country began opening up to the world, that seems to have changed.
To further enhance the cultural collaboration between UK and China, Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May announced Feb 1 the initiation of a new cultural cooperative program during her visit in China.
Sanya is developing world-class attractions to entice visitors in the coming years.
An exhibition on the cultural exchange between China and Italy between the 13th and 16th centuries has opened at the Hunan Museum in Changsha, Hunan province.
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