Rare treasures offer insights into cultural exchange across Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
The Museum of Art Pudong in Shanghai has launched more than 300 items of official merchandise derived from two heavyweight exhibitions, The Wonder of Patterns: Masterpieces from India, Iran and the Ottoman World from the Musee du Louvre, which opens on Saturday, and Picasso Through the Eyes of Paul Smith, cooperating with Musee National Picasso Paris, which will start on Dec 22.
Documentary explores composer's artistic solitude, and his mentorship inspiring generations today, Chen Nan reports.
Welcoming the New Year with a symphony concert has become a ritual for Beijing's musical circle for decades. Each December, the sound of an orchestra rising in harmony marks a ceremonious farewell to the past and the beginning of a hopeful year ahead.
An exhibit featuring art and cultural pieces from the Al-Sabah royal collection of Kuwait opened on Tuesday at a museum in Guangzhou, Guangdong province.
Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage decided to move China's "Hezhen Yimakan storytelling" from the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
From visions of space exploration and scenes of hometown landscapes to magnified details of flowers and plants, artworks created by children from across the country are now on display at the Nanping Art Museum and Pucheng Art Museum in northern Fujian province.
In the archives of the Dior Heritage center, just steps away from its headquarters at 30 Avenue Montaigne in Paris, there are several sketches by Christian Dior himself that would definitely captivate the Chinese audience. These sketches, drawn in 1948, just two years after he founded House of Dior, depict his idea of the fashionable women of Beijing and Shanghai. One notable sketch is from the 1948 spring-summer haute couture collection, featuring a gown called Shanghai. Although Dior never set foot on Chinese soil, it is evident that he harbored a deep fascination for China from an early age.
In just under two weeks, the animated blockbuster Zootopia 2 has swept across Chinese cinemas with a speed and appetite worthy of its famously bustling fictional metropolis, drawing crowds, driving merchandise frenzies, and reaffirming the enduring emotional bond between Disney's beloved animal universe and audiences in China.
CHENGDU — Like stepping into a quaint French vignette, visitors are greeted by sun-drenched redbrick walls, pastel-hued facades, arched windows and steep mansard roofs, a scene evocative of a quiet bourg in the French countryside.
On a cold winter afternoon, as the archaeological work at a well-preserved ancient city site in Longyao county, Xingtai, in North China's Hebei province was drawing to a close, a clump of earth with an unusual texture caught the eye of archaeologists.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, navigators exploring the Pacific and Indian oceans discovered that the languages spoken on many islands, spanning from Madagascar in the west to Polynesia in the east, were remarkably similar. This discovery launched studies of Austronesians, those who speak Austronesian languages and had sailed across the Pacific several thousand years ago.
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