In 1991, Beijing-based musician Wang Wei went on a tour with China Oriental Performing Arts Group as bassist. During the tour, he became fascinated by the shakuhachi, a kind of Japanese bamboo flute. Later, he found out that the shakuhachi, which was called chi ba in Chinese, was introduced to Japan during the Tang Dynasty (618-907).
After a 15-hour overnight journey from Beijing onboard an olden-day green train, when a colleague and I arrived at a station in Dongsheng district of Ordos city on a weekday morning in early March, the air outside the railway premises felt cooler than the Chinese capital but not as cold as I had expected Inner Mongolia to be at such a time of the year.
Vast stretches along Expressway 216, which connects urban Ordos to its rural Otog Front Banner, lie uninhabited. More animals than people can be found in this part of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region where trucks carrying coal are often the only sighted vehicles on the highway.
A foundation that aims to better protect China's intangible cultural heritage was launched at Tsinghua University in Beijing on Thursday.
A rare antique Chinese Ding Bowl was sold for over 4.2 million U.S. dollars Thursday at Christie's in New York.
Over 70 British landscape paintings from Tate will be exhibited in China this April, Shanghai Museum announced Thursday.
No websites should produce or spread items that distort, mock or defame classic literary and art works, according to a circular released by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) on Thursday.
International food fans and organizations have shown a keen interest in contacting a new association for the renowned Chinese snack known as jianbing guozi - deep-fried dough sticks rolled in a thin pancake. The association was established this month in Tianjin, the snack's birthplace.
Tate and Shanghai Museum have announced that the exhibition Landscapes of the Mind: Masterpieces from Tate Britain (1700-1998) will take place in China from April 26 to Aug 5 at the Shanghai Museum.
It is Saturday, when Australian writer Richard Flanagan meets Yu Hua for the first time during an event at a Beijing bookstore. They seem to find a lot in common and any third person is unnecessary in their exchanges. They just know the right questions to ask one another.
With its cross-cultural themes, the first Chinese edition of fantasy writer Ken Liu's genre-defying Dandelion Dynasty series looks set to beguile mainland readers. Yang Yang reports.
Empire of Glass is based on the stories of a Chinese family, who had hosted the novel's American author. Jocelyn Eikenburg reports.
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