At 73, Donald Stone has been an avid collector for nearly six decades. His treasures vary from drawings and prints of Western masters, such as Raphael and Picasso, to Chinese antiquities from the Shang Dynasty (c.16th century-11th century BC).
With the upcoming Year of the Monkey on Feb 8, 2016, Just Share It - Happy Chinese New Year the global online photo contest is being launched all over the world. Chinaculture.org invites people to share their photos of Chinese New Year celebrations.
The submission deadline is Feb 29, 2016. The top 100 photos (single or group) will be grouped into first, second and third levels and another 100 photos (single or group) will be shortlisted from the submitted works. All the 200 final selections will be paid 5,000RMB, 3,000RMB, 1,000RMB and 500RMB respectively.
A seed, an academy and a movie, carrying three stories of Central China's Hunan province recently traveled across the ocean to land in the US.
The island of Jersey in the English Channel, an autonomous dependency of the British crown, is among the first to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Year of the Monkey, with the release of a stamp issue on Jan 5 designed by Beijing illustrator Wang Huming.
An exhibition to show the archaeological finds of Qin culture and Xirong culture before the Qin Dynasty (221 – 201 BC) was kicked off on Thursday in Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum in Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province.
Chinese cinema saw unprecedented growth in 2015, not just in its record-setting ticket sales, but also in the quality of its paraphernalia, including film posters.
A lecture on Opera Warriors was held at Aberdeen Centre Mall in Vancouver on Jan 2. Forty performers from Shanxi Huajin Dance Drama Ensemble and Professor Liu Siyuan from University of British Columbia gave a presentation on Chinese dance drama and Beijing opera in Opera Warriors.
The Chinese have been familiar with the lyrics of the revolutionary opera, The White Haired Girl, for the past seven decades or so.
Anyone curious to know about lesser-known Chinese New Year dishes could find the answers in an upcoming culinary documentary.
While in recent years, most Chinese reality TV shows have either been inspired by or simply copied from established programs in South Korea, a new show, tailor-made for China, stands out.
Chinese mythology typically depicts a "nian" as a lionlike creature that lives under the sea or in the mountains. And once each spring, on or around Chinese New Year, it comes out of hiding to attack people.
For historical reasons the world's foremost sci-fi franchise has a gigantic blind spot. But a new venture could relaunch it into the hearts of Chinese filmgoers, says Raymond Zhou.
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