Renamed 751D·PARK Design Plaza, an abandoned gas factory in Beijing has debuted as a new landmark on the capital city's skyline. Located in Chaoyang District, near the famous 798 Art District, the place has grabbed much public attention since reopening with a brand-new look in 2007.
Peking opera, inscribed in 2010 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, is a performance art dating back to the late 18th century and incorporates singing, reciting, acting, and martial arts. More than a hundred years earlier, the Italian opera was born in Florence, combining the recitative vocal style (a type of speak-singing that imitates the rhythm and delivery of ordinary speech to move the plot forward) with arias, duets and trios. Italy selected Italian opera singing over its beloved 'caffe' as the country's submission for intangible heritage recognition by UNESCO. In their hearts, opera is the national symbol that best presents Italian culture to the world.
Ling Runzhi, 41, who has used a wheelchair ever since she was 6, listens to an online class about modern Chinese landscape painting with rapt attention.
Chinese-Italian production of Tosca three years in making, Chen Nan reports.
Architect Xia Yujun works at crossroads of modern engineering, history and religious culture, Yang Feiyue reports.
The final episode of the documentary series, Amid Lucid Waters and Lush Mountains, which tells the stories of rural vitalization within eight ethnic groups, aired on the video-sharing platform Mango TV on Tuesday.
Across the Spider-Verse gathers a clutter of Spider-Men and Women for a thrilling sequel that its cast and crew hope will be a summer box-office smash, Xu Fan reports.
Maxwell Ahiafor is from Ghana and he now works as a medical intern at Yantai Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University.
Gen Z, a TV series about traditional Chinese medicine, completed its first run on both Shanghai's Dragon Television and the streaming site Youku, igniting an interest in the country's centuries-old medical legacy among young viewers.
Museum's play about lives of long-ago jesters keeps history lively, Lin Qi reports.
Anyone reading this story is a survivor of the COVID-19 pandemic and is undoubtedly scathed by it in one way or another.The New Survivors, an exhibition now on view at the Three Shadows Photography Art Center in Beijing, explores how traumatic memories are recorded, produced, edited and constructed with new meaning in the system of photography and moving image, and may resonate with many.
The highly anticipated summer blockbuster, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, held its premiere earlier this week at Aranya Jinshanling, a resort and residence community located at the foot of a section of the Great Wall in Hebei province.
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