In 2014, China added Yi costumes to the list of the country's items of intangible cultural heritage. Ding is a provincial-level inheritor of Yi costumes.
Family feelings provide us the broadest possible basis for developing appropriate ethical impulses, said Sinologist Roger T. Ames, Humanities Chair Professor at Peking University and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
When director Ha Zhichao visited a welfare institution for people with mental challenges in Hebei province in 2015, he discovered that the moment was etched in his mind as one of the "simplest and happiest''.
Cy Leo, a harmonica virtuoso, composer, and singer-songwriter from Hong Kong, performed in Beijing on Oct 21 and 22.
Xiajiang village, located in East China's Zhejiang province, has earned a prestigious spot on the UNWTO's list of "Best Tourism Villages." This idyllic village is renowned for its unspoiled natural beauty and a profound cultural heritage that spans from traditional folk culture to historical "red culture".
Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) by the National Centre for the Performing Arts was staged in Beijing on Oct 19, 20, and 21.
Tianqiao Performing Arts Center has launched a series of night events. From Oct 21 to Nov 30, visitors could enjoy free shows at the venue during the nighttime, such as music, dance, Peking Opera and theater.
Our Story, a gala featuring about 400 students and teachers of Beijing Opera Art's College, was staged at Tianqiao Performing Arts Center in Beijing on Oct 20.
Shanghai author Jin Yucheng sketched illustrations for Blossoms (Fan Hua), his novel which evolves around the changing life scenes of Shanghai between the 1960s and '90s and won him the Mao Dun Literature Prize — one of the country's top literary accolades — in 2015.
At the recent 81st World Science Fiction Convention in Chengdu, Liu Cixin, author of The Three-Body Problem trilogy, said in a speech that science fiction has always been human's imagination and exploration of the future. It is the first time that Worldcon was held in China.
Award-winning sci-fi author Liu Cixin reveals how he sees the genre developing, Yang Yang reports in Shanghai.
A selection of these photos, along with some of the drawings he made in China, are now on show at Chile y China (Chile and China).