While enrolling your child in extracurricular activities like debate and the performing arts may be at the bottom of the priority list, especially given students' busy academic schedules, there are many reasons why such activities should play a key role in your child's education.
A lecture on traditional Chinese music and instruments in Auckland, New Zealand, attracted 500 local audience members on May 2.
Determining the age of ceramic specimens has been a pivotal issue for archaeologists and researchers at museums, as well as antiquities brokers.
Atlas silk is a fabric from northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region that dates back over 1,000 years. It is also one of the materials that gave the ancient Silk Road its name. Nowadays, with advanced techniques, more exquisite craftsmanship and diverse designs, atlas silk remains a valuable commodity, still popular along the new Silk Road.
An exhibition featuring traditional Chinese kitchen utensils is underway at the China Cultural Center in Paris.
In 1983, when Guan Xia was learning to compose at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, he and four classmates traveled to the Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture in Southwest China's Yunnan province to seek inspiration from the folk music of the Hani and Yi ethnic groups.
It was a brilliant evening. Onstage, with the dutar and the tanbur (both traditional Uygur plucked-stringed instruments), Abduweli Sataer and Alipu Sedike, two musicians from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, showcased unusual sounds in the concert hall of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.
A bunch of blockbusters is making its way to the mainland's screens. This month, around 40 movies - including eight imports - have hit or will premiere in mainland theaters.
China has a fast-growing appetite for fresh and smoked salmon, but Scotland's fish farmers have been struggling to keep up with demand from the lucrative market.
Shanghai Disney Resort said it is ready to welcome its 10 millionth visitor, as the resort approaches its first anniversary on June 16.
An tomb dating back around 1,800 years has been discovered in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality, authorities said Tuesday.
When Milos Zeman gave a speech at Renmin University of China in late 2014, the Czech president received a special gift: a Czech-language edition of The Four Books, a novel by Chinese writer Yan Lianke.
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