The 32nd Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival recently drew to a close after a five-month run, nearly twice as long as the sessions held a decade ago.
What if the legendary heroes, historical figures and cultural icons of Chinese mythology didn't just live in ancient texts but stepped onto a small stage in France, pulled by strings, shadows and breath?
Less than two weeks before the Dragon Boat Festival, which fell on June 19 this year, Yu Chungeng and his company were racing against the clock. "There were still over a dozen orders to deliver," he said. "We were working day and night."
After viral clips, cuddly sheep might be starting to outnumber the real thing in northwestern China.
Serving as the first art project of the "212 Movement World Exploration Initiative", the exhibition is jointly presented by 212 Off-Road, together with PNSO, an organization devoted to the research and creation of scientific art.
In Huzhou's Nanxun ancient town, arched stone bridges frame elegant waterside homes, their reflections shimmering on the tranquil canal.
Silver needles flicker, colorful threads glide, and without a sketch or pattern, landscapes, flowers, birds and mythical creatures emerge stitch by stitch. Guided only by memory and imagination, women of the Huayao ethnic group transform plain cloth into richly detailed works of art.
Hotpot, neon lights, kung fu cinema, and high fashion are not the ingredients one would typically associate with classical ballet. Yet, the Hong Kong Ballet is blending them into an exuberant celebration of the city's cultural identity with the launch of its 2026/27 season, aptly titled Hong Kong Bling.
After nearly a decade in China over two diplomatic postings, Tinatin Shishinashvili thought there was little left to surprise her. Then she stopped at a booth displaying a blue-and-white teacup — one that any visitor to Turkiye would recognize instantly as the country's iconic tulipshaped tea glass, rendered here in Jingdezhen's signature cobalt glaze.
In a rehearsal room in Beijing, the Montagues and Capulets — the two feuding families in the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare — no longer speak in Verona's streets.
How do you turn a story everyone already thinks they know into something that feels new — especially when that story is as familiar as Wukong Thrice Confronts Lady Whitebone, a classic episode of Journey to the West, and the form is comic opera, a genre that demands both musical rigor and theatrical wit?
A cultural exchange event themed "Global Linking of Dunhuang Culture" was recently held in Ottawa.
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