Award-winning architect develops project that brings a multiethnic society, sustainability and culture together as one, Yang Feiyue reports.
After fire destroyed her theater, dancer transforms loss into creation with renewed strength and vision, Chen Nan reports.
A sunlit loft in Long Island City houses a miniature world stitched together by time. Hand-carved puppets, silk costumes and calligraphy brushes sit beside projectors, laptops and stage lights.
In February 1944, American pilot Donald W. Kerr took part in a mission to bomb Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong, which the Japanese had converted into a military air base after occupying the city, formerly under British rule, during World War II.
Late August saw Guangzhou transform into a living stage for verse, where voices from across continents converged in celebration of poetry's power to bridge cultures.
In a sunlit workshop in Wujiaqu city, northwestern Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, a group of women bends over embroidered canvases, their needles flashing as they stitch the rugged beauty of desert poplar trees into vivid life.
Chinese tango dancers Su Junqiang and Guo Xingzhu waltzed their way to international acclaim after winning the China regional competition in Shanghai earlier this year.
"One will always notice that as societies advance toward civility and refinement, people tend to build impressive structures before they learn to cultivate gardens with care and elegance."
William Chambers (1723-96) wrote in his landmark Enlightenment-era book, A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening (1772): "Such is the common scenery of the Chinese gardens … their artists never fail to improve upon its singularities: their aim is to excite a great variety of passions in the mind of spectators; and the fertility of their imagination, always upon the stretch in search of novelty, furnishes them with a thousand artifices to accomplish that aim."
As the credits rolled on the Chinese film Dead to Rights in a German cinema on the evening of Aug 28, Sarah Bahadra sat completely stunned, her eyes glistening. In a voice barely above a whisper, she says she was overwhelmed, describing the film as "too sad …really horrible".
The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra opened its 2025/26 season on Sept 5 with a performance by its new artist in residence, Wu Man, of Pipa Concerto No 2 by Chinese composer Zhao Jiping.
Diplomats recently gathered at the embassy of the Argentine Republic in Beijing to launch the second edition of the LAC UNITED soccer initiative, which brings together representatives from 15 Latin American and Caribbean embassies in China.
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