"Now You See Me 2" soared to the top of the Chinese box office, earning 287 million yuan ($43.1 million) in its debut weekend, knocking "Warcraft" off the top perch, China Film News reported.
The Shanghai building where the Communist Party of China (CPC) held its first national congress has undergone a major refurbishment and expansion for its reopening on July 1, the 95th anniversary of the Party's founding.
The 10th anniversary of the establishment of Confucius Institute in Sofia was celebrated on Tuesday evening.
Israeli author Amos Oz has long been a favored Nobel Prize contender and has received dozens of literary prizes around the world-including the 21 University Students International Literary Award, which he received in Beijing last week.
Together with drummer Nicolas Ballay and keyboarder Maxime Kosinetz, the band BVO aims to introduce their unique definition of music, which mixes pop, electric, psychedelic and rock.
The city's annual Music in the Summer Air festival will see performances by artists from around the world, including tributes to such icons as Andy Warhol and Pink Floyd, and a special appearance by Jane Birkin. Chen Jie reports.
The impact of recent reports about disturbing photos allegedly discovered in the 2003 raid on Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch on sales of a new bilingual book of prose in China remains to be seen.
Director Guan Hu's crime drama Mr. Six was the biggest winner at the 2016 China-Britain Film Festival in London, taking home three awards for Best Director, Best Actress and Best Original Music.
Scholars call for better cultural ties within Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the capital and its two neighboring provinces, at the 18th annual academic meeting.
An up-and-coming Chinese star in international festivals, actress Sun Yi claimed her latest honor, best actress in the Asian New Talent Awards, at the recently concluded Shanghai International Film Festival.
Beijing's Palace Museum cooperated with US cruise line Royal Caribbean International to hold a cultural lecture and promotion events of the museum's souvenirs on a new ship harboring in Tianjin.
Doctors in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality have completed surgery on a 112-day old boy with an extremely rare condition: Part of his heart was outside his chest.