On a weekend morning in 1964, Chen Shiz-hen, 28, looked down from an eighth-floor window of the Ton Ying Company on East 57th Street in Manhattan and saw a familiar limousine parked in front of the building.
In China, food has always played a major role in promoting social cohesion. Communal eating is not only familybased and deeply rooted in the nation's cultural heritage, but is also regarded as an indicator of society's health and stability.
The number of international students flocking to China to pursue higher education has been soaring over the past decade.
An Indian chef is rolling out roti prata onto a kneading board as a Chinese chef makes lamian (hand-pulled noodles), while on the other side of the hall, a Japanese chef prepares sushi.
Cultural events can be a catalyst for building cooperative platforms for people and organizations in Belt and Road countries.
For the 70th anniversary of the start of China-Czech diplomatic relations, the Czech Philharmonic will conclude its performance tour of China on May 23 after visiting seven Chinese cities including Nanjing, Beijing and Wuhan.
During the last six years, Academy Award-winning composer Tan Dun has traveled to the ancient city of Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province, multiple times to study and document the Mogao Caves.
When Yannick Nezet-Seguin, music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, packed his bags for his trip to China with the orchestra, he included a pink T-shirt with a picture of a little shiba inu on it.
Artists from 13 countries show works and designs that celebrate the variety of their own cultural accumulation, as well as a shared craftsmanship that stresses persistence, flexibility, mutual respect and learning.
The Kyrgyz pavilion at the Beijing Horticulture Expo offers insights into not only the Central Asian country's endemic flora but also its people, Yang Feiyue reports.
Holding two bamboo mallets, one in each hand, and alternately hitting the strings on a trapezoid-shaped wooden instrument, Liu Yuening is consumed by the reverberating notes.
For Oscar-winning composer Tan Dun, his ideas about traditional Chinese cultural values - such as loyalty, righteousness and honesty - often derive from the stories his grandparents told him when he was a child.
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