The English magazine The Economist announced the best books of the year with Chinese writer Mai Jia's novel, Decoded, on the list.
People felt a strong and happy festive atmosphere in Beijing on Dec 24, and the Christmas Eve turned out to be another carnival for youths and kids just like the Halloween not long ago.
There were too many things that happened in 2014 and some left us wonderful memories. Here we select from them some of the hottest news to present a retrospect of the past year.
The exhibition,India's Universe: Masterworks of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art(LACMA) is underway at the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, Hubei province, until March 22, 2015.
Some analysts said that this December would see a three horse race between John Woo, Tsui Hark and Jiang Wen's latest films, but these big-budget productions saw a lackluster response from moviegoers.
In the past year, we have seen new things spring up, such as the first 24-hour bookstore, some new museums and also China's culture circle has reached some new achievements.
Lacquer thread sculpting is an art in southeast China which uses well-tempered lacquer threads to build decorative patterns. Originated in the mid-17th century, lacquer thread sculpting is listed as one of China's national intangible heritages.
The Palace Museum has posted a series of flash animations of ancient beauties, which is based on the famous Qing Dynasty painting Twelve Beauties collected by the museum.
Professor Sun Yixue, sub-decanal of the International School of Tongji University, contends that this hot phenomenon needs calm consideration, and that the way ahead is still long and arduous.
The tenth edition of the Vienna Art Week has just concluded, and contemporary Chinese art was conspicuously present. Organized around the theme of "Running Minds", the week was held on Nov. 17-23.
The Chinese Cultural Festival in Australia 2014 (CCFA) is being held for cultural exchanges between China and Australia from Nov 18 to Dec 12.
When asked about "Sinology" and "Chinese values", people will immediately think of Confucianism and rapid economic growth, yet the answer is so much more than that. The Symposium on China Studies 2014 has answered it all well.
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