Guru of cinematic writing Robert McKee says trying to be popular leads to bad work, Wang Kaihao reports.
Feng Xiaogang's film Mr Six was recently declared the top winner of this year's "dirty astray award" by the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control.
Chinese writer and translator Yang Jiang died early on Wednesday in Beijing at age 104.
Students and professors met for the Fudan-UC Center's annual Social Sciences & China Studies Young Scholar's Conference at University of California, San Diego, on May 20 to 21.
The premiere of the Nepali version of the 1986 TV series Journey to the West launched in Kathmandu in Nepal on May 18. The series has been broadcasted in many countries, including Myanmar, Thailand, Ghana and Tanzania.
Famous Chinese writer, literary translator and foreign literature researcher Yang Jiang died at the age of 105 in Beijing Wednesday.
Jackie Chan's latest action comedy, Skiptrace, aims to "showcase the diversity of Chinese culture and customs", as kung fu star revealed in Beijing on Sunday.
The Angry Birds Movies oared to box office earnings of $29.9 million in its debut weekend, knocking Captain Americaoff its perch as the most popular movie in Chinese cinemas.
CBA star Stephon Marbury is to star in a movie about his life in China.
The Chinese government has added 899 valuable ancient manuscripts to the catalog under state protection.
Following in the footsteps of Palace Museum's successful sale of souvenirs, other museums get into the business with the help of new guidelines.
Softness. Subtleness. Sophistication. Celebrated Serbian artist Mirjana Mit. Stojkovic's paintings offer these qualities through the stroke of a brush and in one artistic subject - leaves.