As the lights brightened, a young performer took to the stage against the backdrop of a red curtain. Holding the microphone with confidence, he began recounting humorous tales in Tibetan, eliciting laughter and applause from the crowd.
Lang Lang's new album sees the celebrated pianist explore the sometimes whimsical, and often romantic, world of Camille Saint-Saens, Chen Nan reports.
German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter is on tour in China, playing a recital at Shanghai Oriental Art Center on Mar 15, and then at the National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing on Mar 17.
Nestled in the mountains stretching across the border between the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region and Guizhou province, Wuying, a village with a large population of the Miao ethnic group, has witnessed dramatic change over the past decade.
Jiang Shumei learned her first Chinese character at the age of 60. Now, the 87-year-old grandmother from Northeast China's Heilongjiang province is the proud author of six books.
Having worked as a village doctor for nearly two decades, Yang Lianying, a 44-year-old deputy to the 14th National People's Congress, stands out as a voice for her profession.
The Yuan Art Museum, located in the Junhao Central Park Plaza of Beijing's Chaoyang district, officially opened on Sunday, with its inaugural exhibition, Launching a New Era: Body and Language as Manifesto.
For more than a month, Chen Jinxiang, a villager from Puning, a city in South China's Guangdong province, had been living a life like the fictional Clark Kent: working by day — in this case as the owner of an online clothes shop — and becoming a hero when needed.
Hunching over with shovel in hand, 30-year-old Zhu Yingpei is at work in a newly excavated tomb in Xianyang in Northwest China's Shaanxi province. She is accompanied by a group of female archaeologists.
Famed fairy tale author Huang Zhenhuan, known under the pen name of "Two-tone Scenery" on social media platform Sina Weibo, where he has more than 7 million followers, recently took a course at the Expression Academy. Taught by debate expert Huang Chih-chung, the sessions helped to refine his communication skills.
At the Luban Workshop in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, 39-year-old educator Yonas Akele explains the way an assembly line works to students with the help of an automation control platform from China.
Like many young musicians, Yin Jiongjie has participated in competitions around the world, which he says is a great way of gaining experience by working with symphony orchestras, as well as an opportunity to raise your visibility.
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