Renowned Peking Opera “Farewell My Concubine” debuted at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Friday. Performers took to the stage in the first of their 10 performances over a two-week period in New York.
The martial arts genre also offers not-to-be-missed productions as this type of movie has a firm foothold in the city. Jumping to the front of the line is "The Master", scripted and directed by Xu Haofeng. The film depicts the increasing influence of warlords in martial arts societies, triggering disunion in the martial world.
In the past 20 years, Deqing county in East China's Zhejiang province has seen 55 villagers use their own money to set awards for role models.
Two gunshots were heard at the Bethune International Peace Hospital in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, in December 1949. A Japanese doctor was shot dead by Sha Fei (1912-50), a patient of tuberculosis and a noted photographer of the People's Liberation Army.
Last year, five Chinese painters were commissioned by the China Artists Association to execute two works for the upcoming seventh Beijing International Art Biennale.
The Women of the World Festival was launched in Beijing at the Tianqiao Performing Arts Center on Sept 16, drawing more than 3,000 people.
He Saifei has been named a jury member of the 2017 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, the mayor of Brisbane, Graham Quirk, announced in Beijing on Sept 14. Along with the Chinese actress, Filipino director Adolfo Alix Jr. and Kazakh director Adilkhan Yerzhanov are the first three confirmed international jury members for the awards that are annually held in the Australian city.
The 2017 International Creatineer Competition ended in Beijing's high-tech Zhongguancun area on Saturday with 15 robotics projects of 546 entries winning different top awards.
A series of cultural events will be jointly held by Beijing's Haidian district and Xiongxian county in Hebei province in the coming weeks.
The "Blue Earth" beach clean-up event was held in Tianjin on September 16 by the European Union Delegation to China and the State Oceanic Administration of the People’s Republic of China (SOA) as part of the EU-China Blue Year.
Egypt is eager to tap into the Chinese market to revive its ailing tourism industry, Governor of Egypt's Luxor Governorate Mohamed Badr told Xinhua in a recent interview.
The second Silk Road (Dunhuang) International Cultural Expo (SRDICE) will be held in Dunhuang from Sept 20-21.