During the 38th session of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee in Doha, Qatar in June 2014, "Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor", spanning from China to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, was added to UNESCO's World Heritage List.
The construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road is stimulating Shanghai's vitality; Xuhui District is at the core of the city's contribution to the Belt and Road Initiatives.
One of the lawyers representing the Chinese village in its quest to retrieve the mummified Buddha said an appeal would be submitted to a Dutch court later this month.
Lawyers have finished evidence collection to reclaim a 1,000-year-old Buddha statue containing a mummified monk from a Dutch owner.
Actresses dance during an activity commemorating the 885th anniversary of the birth of Zhu Xi, a renowned Chinese ideologist, philosopher and educator during the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279), in Wuyishan city, Southeast China's Fujian province, Nov 15, 2015.
The Shanghai-based private Long Museum acquired an ink painting by modern master Pan Tianshou at a Beijing sale on Monday night, at the price of 93.15 million yuan ($14.5 million).
Chinese Culture Minister Luo Shugang proposed suggestions on the 2ndChina-Central and Eastern European (CEE) Countries Cultural Cooperation Forum.
An untitled "blackboard" work by Cy Twombly sold for a record-setting $70.5 million at Sotheby's on Wednesday, leading the way to a $295 million total at the auction house's sale of contemporary and post-war art.
An exhibition of precious cultural relics from China's Southern Song Dynasty (1127–1279) is ongoing at the Zhejiang Provincial Museum in Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province.
Ink master Li Keran (1907-89)'s 1964 painting, Wan Shan Hong Bian (Thousands of Mountains in Autumn), fetched 184 million yuan ($28.7 million) at a Beijing sale on Monday night.
Wang Tao is the first musician in China to receive a master's degree in clarinet from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, a top music school in the country.
As the epitome of classical music in China, Beethoven has figured prominently in concert programs, but also in China's political landscape.