Besides "wow" and "great", what else would you say when flying over the Earth in space? Samantha Cristoforetti, the first Italian female astronaut in space, posted several lines of a famous ancient Chinese composition on Twitter to share her joy.
A comics exhibition was unveiled in Sydney on Oct 13, offering a glimpse of both the city of Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province, and the Chinese animation industry.
In one urban community in northern China, a voluntary service team launched last October nicknamed "Shared Children", which works hard to support elderly empty nesters, is gaining popularity among residents.
Yinet Ferrer, the top prizewinner at this year's International Classical Chinese Poetry Recitation Contest in Cuba, says she has been inspired by Chinese poetry.
An exhibition at the Liu Haisu Art Museum in Shanghai, which runs until Sunday, presents the evolution of modern art education in China.
In 2019, when stage producer Zhang Nianxian traveled to Moscow to meet her business partners to discuss future projects of bringing Russian classical musicians to perform in China, she was invited to watch an original Russian musical, Anna Karenina, adapted from Leo Tolstoy's iconic novel.
Early in the morning, He Kaiping and her colleagues sit in a room, each facing several glasses of white liquor, or baijiu, for them to observe, smell and taste, before writing comments on a score sheet.
As one of the rarest and most critically endangered primates in the world, eastern black crested gibbon is immortalized through photos by photographer Huang Songhe.
Camping was all the rage across China during the just-concluded National Day holiday, with some joking that "half of their friends on WeChat were camping".
Sana Farooq has been learning Chinese at the National University of Modern Languages for over a month, and the more she learns about the language, the more she feels herself getting attached to Chinese culture.
With its primal rhythms and rapid-fire lyrics, delivered with hypnotic cadence by machine gun-lipped MCs, hip-hop is more than just music. It attaches itself to the listener, like invisible strings of a marionette, forcing even the most dedicated wallflower into nodding to the beat. This is the basis for an artistic phenomenon that, like the mesmerizing pulse of the music's bass drum, has gripped the imagination of the nation's youth, growing exponentially more popular since the pioneers of Chinese street dance first popped and locked at the turn of the century.
In 2008, then-10-year-old Hu Ping was happy to see fireworks in the streets on the night of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing. During the Games, she celebrated China's medal tally and says she felt that people who fight for the honor of their country are quite remarkable.
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