Amid the brisk festival air for the lunar new year, monkey themed designs are receiving a high fever, from stamps to commemorative coins, even fashion items and handicrafts.
More than 2,000 events, including concerts, film screenings, parades and exhibitions, are set to be held in more than 140 countries across the world to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, which falls on Feb 8.
The two-volume A Century Chinese-English Dictionary is expected to be released by the Shanghai Translation Publishing House later this year.
Over the past two decades, author and artist Feng Jicai has been investigating, saving and protecting folk heritage, which is vanishing amid fast changes in Chinese society.
China will get its fifth Madame Tussauds wax museum when a new one opens in the southwestern municipality of Chongqing this summer, local authorities announced on Tuesday.
Fresh off a fruitful 2015, China's domestic comedies are looking forward to another year of anticipation.
Riccardo Muti conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to give two concerts in Beijing on Monday and Tuesday.
Local officials in Beijing vowed to further renovate and protect the city's cultural heritage, in particular the narrow streets or alleys known as hutong.
A group of 30 Chinese artistes including singers, dancers, acrobats and dramatists are expected to perform on Jan. 28 and 29 in the Rwandan capital Kigali to celebrate the forthcoming Chinese Lunar New Year.
An exhibition on contemporary Chinese art, inaugurated in Athens on Jan 20, is showcasing work by some of the finest artists of the country and reflecting the cultural, economic, social and political developments of China.
The Chinese embassy in Venezuela on Jan 24 opened a photo exhibition on Beijing, which kicked off the Chinese New Year celebrations in the Latin American country.
A grand show performed by Chinese artists from the country's Inner Mongolia autonomous region was staged in Warsaw on Jan 25, kicking off a two-week tour to mark China's Lunar New Year in Poland.
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