I found the apt antidote to brain-dead Friends on China TV.
Prince Gung's Palace Museum welcomed scholars, poets, musicians and artists on Monday for its 14th edition of the Haitang Yaji cultural salon, an event celebrating classical Chinese poetry, music and traditional arts against the backdrop of blooming crabapple trees.
From illustrated books celebrating biodiversity in Yunnan province, to posters integrating Peking Opera paper-cuts, a graphic design exhibition now on at the Jilin University of Arts in Changchun, Jilin province.
The flagship public affairs program One Step Forward on Beijing TV has fostered discussions between citizens and policymakers for over six years.
Following its premiere in Shanghai last July, dance drama Thunderstorm embarked on its first nationwide tour, visiting six cities — Nanjing, Suzhou and Yangzhou in Jiangsu province, Wuhan in Hubei province, Changsha in Hunan province, and Zhengzhou in Henan province.
The Peach Blossom Fan, an adaptation of one of the most famous plays by Feng Menglong, a well-known Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) writer, was staged by the Jiangsu Performing Arts Group in Beijing on Thursday.
A folk-song festival will take place in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Monday, drawing nearly 200 singers from art troupes across the country, including the China National Opera House, the China National Opera and the Dance Drama Theater, and the China National Traditional Orchestra.
Three years ago, British actress Jodie Comer debuted in London's West End with the one-woman play Prima Facie, a production that earned her the prestigious Olivier Awards for Best Actress the following year. During the award ceremony, the actress from Killing Eve emotionally explained how the play changed her life.
"I look forward to discovering the new generation of Chinese filmmakers and their ways of narrating stories at the Shanghai International Film Festival," says renowned Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore.
When Fudan University associate professor Jiang Changjian recited a poem produced by DeepSeek as an impromptu response to history professor Meng Man's remarks about the challenge of teaching in the digital age, Meng couldn't help chuckling.
Fabrice Mba's passion for Chinese culture and martial arts budded in the southern Cameroon town of Sangmelima, where he grew up watching kung fu movies.
On Monday afternoon in the obstetrics and gynecology operating room of Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital in Gambia's capital Banjul, a local patient anxiously awaited her surgery.