This year's record box-office takings-3.61 billion yuan-over the Spring Festival holiday is due mainly to three blockbusters-Stephen Chow's Mermaid, Cheang Pou-soi's The Monkey King 2 and Wong Jing's The Man from Macao III.
Anticipation runs high that The Mermaid could be the first film to reach the new landmark of 3 billion yuan in gross receipts.
Hunan province in central China is offering a reward to anyone who can decode the inscription on the back of six ancient gold coins.
Band from the Inner Mongolia autonomous region led the audience through a mixture of nomadic melodies, as part of its UK tour that started on Jan 26.
Experts weigh in on what needs to be done to boost children's theater in China. Zhang Kun reports in Shanghai.
My lingering memories of my Shanghai-Suzhou tour would be the warmth and kindness of total strangers, but for whom I'd have found it difficult to find my way from subway stations to various tourist sites.
Before the onset of the Year of the Monkey, I embark on a four-day trip to Shanghai, and a chance to see how life turns vibrant in China around the Lunar New Year's Day.
The Puzhen tie-dye workshop in Zhoucheng village doesn't have any modern machinery despite being one of the largest such operations in Yunnan province's Dali area.
For the first time in Italy, the strength of Chinese characters in the works of a leading artist was central to an exhibition that kicked off on Saturday.
The film blends elements of the real and the surreal as it follows a quest by the young river captain Gao Chun, played by Qin Hao, as he steers his decrepit hulk of a freighter up the 6,300-km (3,915 m) river to deliver a mysterious cargo.
A master carver brings his family craft to the sixth generation, investing his wooden creations with eyes and other facial features that move.
Poseable, handmade figures are priced at more than $1,000 each.