A rundown of 2015's most significant, as selected by our editors and reporters, represents our efforts to capture what is essentially amorphous in a continuum.
Chinese filmmakers stepped out of Hollywood's shadow, producing films that set box-office records even as critics say artistic merit still lags behind.
This year has been historic for China's film industry. As of Dec 3, China's total box office sales for 2015 reached a record high of 40.05 billion yuan ($6.18 billion).
With the upcoming the Year of the Monkey on Feb 8, 2016, Just Share It - Happy Chinese New Year global online photo contest 2016 is being launched.
France will issue its stamps for the Year of the Monkey in January 2016, which will be the last set of Chinese zodiac series stamps.
When the Vienna Philharmonic holds its New Year's Concert in the Golden Hall of Vienna's Musikverein on Jan 1, it will not just present one of the world's foremost classical music events but also will celebrate the 75th anniversary of this cherished tradition.
Englishman William Lindesay recently launched The Great Wall in 50 Objects-his fifth book on the Wall-in China, as part of the 2015 UK-China Year of Cultural Exchange.
An exhibition of 73 treasures from the "relics transfer to South" during China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression opened at the Garden of Harmonious Virtue in Beijing's Summer Palace on Monday.
The year of 2015 has been an important one for the development of China-Latin America relations, when cultural exchanges became the highlight of bilateral ties.
A 70-year-old opera "The White Haired Girl" has greeted audiences once again with a 3D makeover in Beijing over the weekend.
Nearly 3,000 health and fitness experts worldwide have voted wearable technology as the number one fitness trend of 2016.
The Beijing Stone Carving Art Museum, which is set to reopen on Dec 31 after a two-year restoration, now houses 2,600 stone carvings collected from all over the city. Wang Kaihao reports.