Taiwan-based author and screenwriter Chiung Yao may become the first member at China Film and Literature Association who is not from the Chinese mainland.
The La Ba (腊八) Festival is celebrated on the eighth (ba, 八) day of the 12th month (la yue 腊月). It is one of the most important traditional festivals in Chinese culture.
Popular cyber phrases such as "Diao Si" (Grass root or loser) and "Zhuang Bi" (pretentious or showing off) are "polluting" the Chinese language. That's according to a Shanghai CPPCC member on the third session of the 12th Shanghai political consultative conference.
Just as the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing united the whole world with "one dream", today, Chinese New Year is becoming a world festival.
Ma Wuyi, a political adviser of the Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, called for better protection and promotion of Beijing's traditional culture, especially its time honored brands.
The habitat of the Tibetan antelope in the Hoh Xil area of China's Qinghai province will be nominated as a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site in 2017.
Guests launch the Global Chinese Day and 2015 Beijing New Year Concert in Beijing on Jan 25, 2015.
Initiated and sponsored by the Sino-South African Arts and Culture Association, 2015 Chinese Photography Expo debuted on Jan 17 at the African Museum in Johannesburg, the capital of South Africa.
While touring the former residence of Ba Jin in Shanghai on Jan 22, some tourists were surprised to find that the institute had set up a public WeChat account to share information like historical materials and reading experience on Ba Jin.
Qinghai plans to push forward the Kekexili Nature Reserve's application for world natural heritage.
Cartoonists from at least three Chinese cities have used their brushes to express displeasure at French comic magazine Fluide Glacial's satirical portrayal of the Chinese people.
Chinese archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an ancient satellite city 20 kilometers south of China's largest prehistorical ruins at Shimao in Yulin City of Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, according to a recent report from Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology.