Italian travel blogger Laura Zampetti's journey through Yunnan was filled with delightful surprises.
Hong Kong Ballet will present two of its most acclaimed productions: The Last Song by the company's choreographer Hu Song Wei Ricky and the award-winning Carmina Burana by its artistic director Septime Webre, at Shanghai from Nov 14 to 15.
In China, almost every class in elementary and middle schools establishes a WeChat group for parents, created by the homeroom teacher after students enroll. Teachers use these groups to announce various requirements, homework assignments, or the school supplies needed for the next day.
Documentary films, with their distinctive ability to convey authentic narratives, could be more effective than fictional stories in bringing China's stories and spirit to a global audience, said industry insiders during the recently concluded 4th Chinese Documentary Film Festival, held in Zhuhai, Guangdong province.
CHONGQING/TAIYUAN — As the cool moonlight filtered through a plum orchard in the Jielong township of Southwest China's Chongqing, 44-year-old Tao Heng could be found setting up her phone in a nearby studio.
When Lin Kailiang, a doctoral student, sent two emails in November 2012 to two titans of 20th-century physics — the 90-year-old Nobel laureate Yang Chen-Ning and the 89-year-old visionary, Freeman Dyson — he didn't expect it would forever alter the trajectory of his life.
TOKYO — The China Film Week held at the 38th Tokyo International Film Festival concluded with the Golden Crane Awards ceremony on Oct 28.
A 10-episode documentary uncovers the Palace Museum's transformation and preservation through the eyes of the staff, restorers and researchers, Xu Fan reports.
In an immaculate 6,000-square-meter processing facility in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, the air carries a chill, maintained by a precise temperature control system. Stainless steel glistens like a surgical theater. Conveyor belts hum in measured rhythm.
The Yangguan and Yumen passes were born of imperial strategy but survive as strongholds of poetic imagery. The phrase "the spring breeze never crosses Yumen Pass", from eighth-century poet Wang Zhihuan's Song of Liangzhou, evokes a boundary where the cultivated, clement and civilized empire ended, and the desolate, dangerous badlands began. It drew a line in the sand so sharp not even the rejuvenating breath of the seasons dared cut across.
A group of experts and scholars specializing in folk culture studies from around the country visited Shantou, South China's Guangdong province, from Oct 28 to 31 to study the rich folk culture and customs associated with the Chongyang Festival.
New Zealand's tourism sector, the country's second-largest export, is poised for growth following a government announcement that Chinese visitors can now travel visa-free from Australia to New Zealand, senior officials said Monday.