Fifty years have passed since Chinese artist Shen Wei first put a brush to paper while learning traditional Chinese painting in Hunan province, when he was 7 years old.
While China's newly unveiled recommendations for formulating the next five-year plan chart courses for sectors like solar energy, wind energy and new materials, they also set the stage for rejuvenating the nation's ancient bamboo culture.
TAIYUAN — With her hair styled up and dressed in traditional attire, Ukrainian Karyna Kovalevska strolled through the 2,800-year-old town of Pingyao, a UNESCO World Heritage site in North China's Shanxi province, documenting the ancient architecture and chatting with shop owners and residents.
BUDAPEST — On Nov 27, The Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest opened one of the most significant Chinese cultural exhibitions ever held in Hungary, presenting more than 150 ancient artworks from the Qin (221-206 BC) and Han (206 BC-AD 220) dynasties, including 10 original Terracotta Warriors.
A set of 28 turquoise beads that were excavated from several high-status tombs in Beijing has provided stunning scientific evidence of a long-distance exchange network that connected northern and southern China more than three millennia ago.
The Path of Mastery, an ongoing exhibition at the National Art Museum of China, showcases the lifelong efforts of Qian and Zhong in keeping the flames of Chinese cloisonne burning.