A craftsman checks a traditional Tibetan mask in Dagze district of Lhasa, Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region, Dec 9, 2024.
SOFIA — It is hard to imagine that someone living on the other side of the world could be interested in your culture as the result of just a handful of encounters. However, The Story of China — How and Why, a series of activities in Bulgaria, is proving this possible.
SHIJIAZHUANG — Enchanted by the beauty of white Chinese porcelain, Marc Leuthold has spent the past two months creating contemporary artworks using the local clay and firing methods of Quyang, a county in Hebei province, with over a thousand years of ceramic-making history.
Darjeeling, a mountain city in the foothills of the Himalayas in the Indian state of West Bengal, is a popular tourist destination known for its panoramic view of Mount Kanchenjunga. It is also a place from where Indian tourists (other nationalities excluded) are able to cross the border to Nepal to visit the bustling market in the town of Pashupati Nagar.
Set to poetry, and typically performed by a classically trained vocalist accompanied by a pianist, art song occupies a distinct place in the musical world for its intimacy and ability to connect deeply with listeners.
With the delicate touch of her fingers, Wu Man carefully unravels the threads of a distant past.
Yang Liusong has had firsthand experience of Mother Nature's wrath. In his 40s, Yang danced with death many times when he ventured through the treacherous terrain of the vast, uninhabited Changtang region in the early 2010s, and crossed the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, the world's largest of its kind, during the rainy season, amid floods and landslides.
With the Bayreuth Festival brand coming to Shanghai for the first time, the city is set to host the festival's only residency program in Asia and stage three masterpieces by the notable German composer Richard Wagner (1813-83) from 2025 to 2027, offering both domestic and international audiences a Wagnerian opera feast.
Dance drama, "Tian Gong Kai Wu", or The Exploitation of the Works of Nature, held its review at the Beijing Dance Academy on Sunday.
Qipao, or cheongsam that features elegant floral motifs, fine embroidery, and body-hugging design, is arguably the epitome of Chinese fashion.
In an effort to introduce China's Grand Canal and its related cultural heritage to a broader audience, the "China Chic - Reviving China's Heritage" project by China Daily Website is calling for artists worldwide to show their artistic finesse and their take on the Grand Canal.
Rapid urbanization and social transformations in the late 1990s gave rise to "city landscapes", a genre of which ink artists explored to depict emerging urban scenes in the style of Chinese painting.