Viewed as a ground-breaking exploration to revive the struggling martial arts movie genre, the 2014 hit Brotherhood of Blades will see a second installment screened this summer.
One of the most expensive Chinese-language films ever made, the 500-million-yuan ($72.6 million) The Monkey King 3 recently concluded the five months of filming across China.
Taklamakan's Drumbeat, a film produced by Tianshan Mountain Film Studio of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, premiered in Beijing on Monday at the Great Hall of the People.
Chinese scientists have identified the chemical mechanism of celastrol, which they call one of the most potent natural weight-loss agents, marking another step toward its possible future development into a major weight-loss drug.
It looks like a conventional kitchen. There are big square pans of mountain yams, ready for a 70-minute roasting. Thirty kilos of broomcorn millet are in line for half an hour of steaming. A food processor growls like a chainsaw as it chops up Job's tears, the pearly dried kernels also known as coixseed.
The 2017 Hotelier Awards will open for applications on April 24, a process that culminates with a black-tie gala to honor professionals in every category of hotel service. For the second consecutive year, the awards ceremony and dinner will be held in Macao, at a hotel venue yet to be announced.
The Sunrise Kempinski's latest menu offering is a challenge for big eaters: a coil of top-quality sausage that measures 9 meters in length. (For comparison, basketball superstar Yao Ming is 2.26 meters tall.) The sharable ground pork feast comes with sides of mashed potatoes and the inevitable but delicious German sauerkraut and fresh Paulaner beer for 688 yuan ($99). The dish was created in honor of the hotel chain's global celebration of its 120th birthday, marked on April 11. Try it this month and you'll also get a taste of the hotel's caramel-and-pretzel birthday cake.
China will be the guest country at the 27th International Book Fair in Havana, Cuba, in 2018, the president of the Cuban Book Institute, Juan Rodriguez, announced on Sunday.
On a hot summer-like Saturday afternoon, visitors found some solace at 751 Fashion Echo art gallery in Beijing as they wandered through a new ink painting exhibition titled “Beacon Light”.
Renowned Taiwanese film director Li Xing, 87, has called for more cultural exchanges between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, at the opening ceremony of the 9th Annual Cross-Strait Film Exhibition on April 14 at the Beijing Normal University.
A selection of traditional Chinese fan paintings are on display at the China Cultural Center in Seoul, offering a glimpse of the characteristics of traditional ink painting.
The 17th Meeting in Beijing Arts Festival will open with Hungarian dance Princess Sissi on April 27. The event will feature a series of classic works from countries related to the Belt and Road Initiative, including ballet Swan Lake performed by a Belarus dance company.