It has been about a year since Mei Diyang was appointed first principal viola at the Berliner Philharmoniker, the first Chinese national to become a member of the orchestra in its 141-year history.
The 2023 China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival is scheduled to take place between Nov 1 and 4 in Xiamen, Fujian province, according to a news conference held on Monday in Beijing.
The capital's classical music enthusiasts are enjoying October thanks to the annual Beijing Music Festival, which features concerts by musicians from all over the world.
CHICAGO — Years after returning from China, where he and his parents lived for four years, Hugh Shepard still remembers his life in Beijing vividly.
'Ihaven't left my house in five years. Now, here I am, on the stage of the Beijing Music Festival and I am a little bit nervous," says Liu Sola, a renowned Chinese composer, whose symphonic dance, titled The Legend of Monkey King, was performed by the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the Liu Sola and Friends Band, under the baton of conductor Zhang Jiemin, on Oct 5 in Beijing.
Xiangsheng, or cross-talk, is one of the most popular comic performances in China, appealing to people of all ages and from different walks of life.
Pianist Sir Stephen Hough made his debut during the Beijing Music Festival with a recital on Oct 12, featuring music pieces, including Scriabin's Fifth Piano Sonata, Debussy's Estampes and Liszt's Dante Sonata.
Local people celebrate the harvest with various activities including fish catching, fish fry releasing and fish feast.
The 7th Pingyao International Film Festival opened on Wednesday in the ancient town of Pingyao in North China's Shanxi province.
China Cultural Center in Paris hosted three master courses on Chinese fashion design from Oct 5 to 7 during the China-France Fashion Week, attracting more than 60 adult and teenage students and fashion lovers to participate.
"Why did you die on earth in the first place, and why do you now ask me to return you to human life and love again?" That is the question Water — the god of life — asks, when violin, cello and piano, three personified musical instruments, tell their stories on earth, before they die and answer to the water god's judgement.
Istarted studying the Confucian classics before coming to China in 2009. During my studies here, I found that many Confucian classics do not have Persian translations and, if they do, they are not directly translated from Chinese to Persian. Therefore, I decided to start translating The Works of Mencius.