The Shanghai Oriental Art Center announced its spring and summer offerings. Starting March 3 and running through Aug 8, 91 performances will be staged, including a number of international projects.
The 38th Shanghai Spring International Musical Festival will take place from March 18 to April 2. It will consist of 32 concerts, 10 dance shows and a series of exhibitions, competitions and other events.
Audiences in Shanghai will be in for a treat when not one but two Phantoms take to the stage. A dance theater production of The Phantom of the Opera will be premiered at the Shanghai International Dance Center Grand Theater on May 11. It will be performed by the Shanghai Ballet.
After being married for 38 years, Zhang Jianjun and Qin Shumei decided it was time to get a picture. Dressed in formal attire, they are finally ready for their wedding photos.
Shao Bolin (1930-2023) is recognized as a legend in design that, in a career spanning several decades, created and oversaw iconic postage stamps. Shao passed away in January and his former colleagues, friends and relatives recently held a gathering to remember him and recall anecdotes about his infinite imagination and hard work in design, as well as his spirit to reform the outlook of Chinese stamp design.
"We had been in training for three years — day and night, and I'd lost sleep for three months before the competition," Lai Xuanzhi, 36, who is now the vice-principal of Qixing Primary School in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, recalls the first time he led the school jump rope team in an international competition.
A seventh-generation inheritor of Xiang embroidery is dedicated to the craft, report Wang Ru and Feng Zhiwei in Changsha.
In many ways, national highways are the arteries of a nation, as they form a network of interconnected routes that facilitate the flow of resources and people that keep the country moving.
Long queues of visitors formed outside the National Art Museum of China on a Sunday afternoon, despite Beijing being engulfed in the chills of early February, and people having to hold umbrellas to shelter from falling sleet. They all came for the same exhibition, Beauty in Greatness Through Details, which occupies all of the museum's halls and comprises 1,000 paintings, prints, watercolors and sculptures of smaller sizes. Some are from the collection of National Art Museum of China and are representative works of preeminent figures of the 20th-century Chinese art.
From an internet influencer who works in the field of cultural communication to a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the transition makes Wu Minjie to feel a great responsibility. But she has gradually adapted to her new role and has begun to focus on issues like traditional culture and art, public cultural service and internet communication.
Chen Hongyan, a member of the 14th CPPCC National Committee and director of the Ancient Book Department at the National Library of China, has been committed to protecting ancient books over the last 36 years.