Dominic Ziegler says it was the love of wild places that led him on a journey along the Heilongjiang or Black Dragon River.
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio ate a piece of real bison liver in his new movie The Revenant, a tale of revenge set in the American Old West.
Publishers look at the coming times to launch a number of books by Chinese writers for the English-speaking world, Mei Jia reports.
Chinese archaeologists selected the discovery of a sunken warship from the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), a Yangtze River Delta tomb and four others as the greatest archaeological finds of 2015 on Tuesday.
The exhibition of a porcelain painting of Dream of the Red Chamber was held for the first time at Tianya Art Gallery on Jan 10 in Beijing. Written by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Dream of the Red Chamber is one of the masterpieces of Chinese literature.
A photo of a smiling Bodhisattva statue with dimples from Shanxi's Yungang Grottoes has gone viral since it was unveiled at a recent photography exhibition.
Close to the entrance of China's pavilion at the New Delhi World Book Fair, visitors gathered to watch an ancient printing technique and publishing culture.
The Design Intelligence awards were launched by the Hangzhou-based China Academy of Art on Friday to encourage innovative industrial design.
Chinese cultural exchange groups unveiled the country's first ever official mascots for the all-important Chinese lunar New Year.
The Chinese Ministry of Culture and Egyptian Embassy in China jointly staged a press conference to launch the 2016 Sino-Egyptian Culture Year at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing on Monday.
Two American movies, Carol, and Bridge of Spies, topped the nominations in the shortlist for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) annual awards.
A Nobel laureate and a Peking Opera performer are among those honored for their roles in promoting Chinese culture at an annual program that is jointly hosted by a government body and a TV station.