Setting his feet in China over 700 years ago, the famous Italian explorer Marco Polo described Dunhuang in his detailed chronicle as a major pivot on the ancient Silk Road, creating an unprecedented connection between this oriental city of commerce and Europe's trade empire, Venice.
The Franklin Institute, a museum in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, pledged on Friday to protect a set of China's terracotta warrior statues with the "utmost care and reverence," after a man stole a statue's thumb.
In the Chinese restaurant of Chefchaouen, one of the top tourist attractions in Morocco, a dining area of less than 100 square meters was filled with more than a hundred Chinese tourists, with a lot more waiting outside, during the Chinese Spring Festival.
Hu Xianmin is in the midst of carving the scenes of a famous oil painting onto a piece of teakwood the length of a snooker cue.
Hu Xianmin is in the midst of carving the scenes of a famous oil painting onto a piece of teakwood the length of a snooker cue.
The Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci may have had grand designs to convert China to Christianity, but things turned out to be infinitely less simple.
SHIJIAZHUANG - Li Zhengjie says people in his village were born "shouldered" with a nearby ancient bridge. In his eyes, the 1,400-year-old Zhaozhou Bridge they have been so proud of has become a reason for their falling behind China's urbanization drive.
Capacity crowds flock to Los Angeles landmark to catch colorful lion dances and musical performances.
The Confucius Class of the Wellington East Girls' School held a special activity Feb 16 to teach students dragon and lion dances.
An art troupe from China, Little Red Flower, gave a performance in Preston, Britain on Feb 20. Mayor of Preston Brian Rollo and his wife attended the event, along with 700 locals.
A documentary that tells the story of Chinese artists in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, who paint perfect copies of great Western works of art, will be shown at the British Film Institute in London on Saturday, in celebration of Chinese New Year.
For Professor Stephen Angle, it was a college history course that led to his embrace of Confucianism and Chinese culture.
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