The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has released China's six top new archaeological discoveries of 2015 on Tuesday.
The Chinese Ministry of Culture and Egyptian Embassy in China jointly staged a press conference to launch the 2016 Sino-Egyptian Culture Year at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing on Monday.
In Sydney, a series of cultural events have been launched with more expected to come as the Sydney China Cultural Center opened its "2016 Happy Chinese New Year" campaign.
Even though the Chinese Lunar New Year is still a month away, people are already going ape for the Year of the Monkey.
Through the year, more than 130 programs and events were held in Qingdao with the goal of raising the cultural development and cultural exchange with Korea’s Cheongju and Japan’s Niigata.
A lecture on Opera Warriors was held at Aberdeen Centre Mall in Vancouver on Jan 2. Forty performers from Shanxi Huajin Dance Drama Ensemble and Professor Liu Siyuan from University of British Columbia gave a presentation on Chinese dance drama and Beijing opera in Opera Warriors.
The Chinese have been familiar with the lyrics of the revolutionary opera, The White Haired Girl, for the past seven decades or so.
Millions of people gathered in Times Square to celebrate the New Year on the night of Dec 31, 2015. China National Tourist Office in New York also held a special promotion for 2016 China-US Tourism Year.
A batch of well-designed cultural calendars were hot sellers at the end of the year and now posting photos of the calendars has become a new fad on social networks.
The oldest Hoabinhian culture, an important technological adaptation by hunter-gatherers to the humid tropical and subtropical environments of southeast Asia some 43,500 years ago, was identified in Southwest China's Yunnan province.
Chinese filmmakers stepped out of Hollywood's shadow, producing films that set box-office records even as critics say artistic merit still lags behind.
With the upcoming the Year of the Monkey on Feb 8, 2016, Just Share It - Happy Chinese New Year global online photo contest 2016 is being launched.