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Show of abundance

2022-10-24 08:01

Wuzhen Theater Festival returns with a variety of plays based on works of literature.

A future-proof view of past glories

2022-10-21 08:13

The Song Dynasty (960-1279) produced a rich trove of artworks that present a beautiful simplicity and a high level of taste.

Master of jade

2022-10-21 08:12

Chinese artist and sculptor Wallace Chan's jewelry collection is expected to be a key highlight at this year's China International Import Expo, which will be held in Shanghai from Nov 5 to 10.

Modernizing cultural richness

2022-10-21 08:11

A Qinqiang Opera actor, Hou Yan felt ashamed to talk about her profession as a performer of the local folk opera that mainly thrived in northwestern China in the 1990s. This was at a time when pop songs and music introduced from the West were in vogue and sweeping the land.

'Purrfect' place for stray cats

2022-10-21 08:09

A one-of-a-kind sanctuary opened in Shanghai recently, marking a major breakthrough in efforts by local organizations to control the city's stray animal population.

Chengdu cartoons, animation shown in Sydney

2022-10-20 08:35

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.

Student takes top poetry prize in Cuba

2022-10-20 08:32

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.

Art education on display

2022-10-20 07:51

An exhibition at the Liu Haisu Art Museum in Shanghai, which runs until Sunday, presents the evolution of modern art education in China.

Staging a love story

2022-10-20 07:50

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.

Camping picks up pace as holiday option

2022-10-19 08:37

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".

Chinese culture is popular lesson in Pakistan

2022-10-19 08:34

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.

'Breaking' new ground

2022-10-19 08:03

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.

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