The COVID-19 pandemic and the global response to it have severely limited public celebration of this year's World Book Day but online activities are still underway to promote the power of reading which the United Nations believes should be leveraged more than ever at a time of lockdown.
The first installment of the biannual Shanghai Fashion Week this year was undeterred by the ongoing pandemic, shifting all its shows online through a collaboration with e-commerce giant Alibaba in a move that has drawn plaudits, He Qi reports in Shanghai.
Shanghai Ballet director Xin Lili is determined to premiere the company's contemporary production, Inspire III: Fragments of Memory, even if the COVID-19 epidemic prevents audiences from attending the show at the Shanghai International Dance Center.
Starting from China, traveling through 24 countries and clocking up more than 28,000 kilometers, Li Shaoying, a 35-year-old designer, faced the long road alone on her motorbike. But her adventure abruptly stopped in Morocco as the African country has been practically in lockdown since mid-March due
Thursday marked the 25th World Book and Copyright Day. It should have been a big occasion for the National Library of China to unveil the annual Wenjin Book Award-one of the country's highest-level literary prizes.
About ten Chinese publishers joined a campaign to solicit children's books about the ongoing fight against novel coronavirus and make them online free for global readers.
The National Library of China (NLC) has launched a national memory project to document the country's battle against the COVID-19 epidemic.
There is a Chinese saying that goes like this, “the flowers were grown in courtyard but recognized for their nice smell beyond the wall”.
Science fiction writer Liu Cixin, known worldwide for his Three Body trilogy, told his readers in a video clip to mark the 2020 World Book Day, which fell on Thursday, that reading will help ease the anxiety caused by the coronavirus outbreak, and knowledge they will gain through reading would banis
The international community needs to take an objective view on China's fight against COVID-19, a Japanese documentary director has told Xinhua.
China's documentaries have endured strains in recent years and face challenges and opportunities amid the COVID-19 outbreak, Wang Kaihao reports.
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