China Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio (Group) hosted a collaboration conference on July 26 to utilize video resources better to promote China's revolutionary culture.
A unique concert, attended by classical musicians and Chinese scientists, was staged at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing on Sunday.
A joint calligraphy exhibition at Hong Kong City Hall, until Tuesday, introduces to the audience the history and cultural lineage of Zhejiang which has been enriched by the river. On show are works by Yang Xiaojun, a noted calligrapher from Fuyang district, along the river, and his disciple Zhao Yu.
Li Fushun's ongoing exhibition at the National Art Museum of China is a display of dozens of ink paintings derived from his extensive travels around the country over the years.
The Sky, Still That Sky produced by the Henan Provincial Drama Arts Center will stage the work in late August, followed by a national tour.
Before Zhang Fan goes to work every morning, the last step in her makeup routine is to put on false eyelashes. "The brown ones are charming. They look like drooping sunflowers," she says.
China's capital city received 1.66 million inbound trips, an increase of 245.6 percent compared to the same period last year, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism reports.
One of the preeminent artists of 20th-century China, Jiang Zhaohe (1904-86) left an oeuvre that integrates the precision and dimensions of Western techniques with the shading and layering of classic Chinese painting. His work was realistic, with strong humanistic tendencies and allowed him to present a vivid profile of ordinary people, especially those suffering from hardship.
Zhang Gongque's (1924-2020) alma mater in Hangzhou, the National College of Art (today's China Academy of Art) was a gathering place for leading figures of modernism in early 20th-century China under whose guidance students like Zhang learned how to create with independence and to express with sincerity.
Lost in the Stars, a musical produced by Beijing-based musical theater company BCC Musical, hosted a media conference and premiere concert on July 22 where the cast performed 12 songs from the production.
Father Far Away, a film adapted from the life story of Jiang Wanfu, a Shanghai doctor dedicated to helping locals in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region for over four decades, recently held a seminar in Beijing.
To promote the development of sports and tourism in Beijing and Zhangjiakou, host locations of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, a 236.3-kilometer track named "The Joyful Road of Winter Olympics" will be built to link tourist attractions in the two cities with Olympic competition venues.