To boost the communication and exchange among Asian traditional art forms, universities from both home and abroad joined hands to put on a feast for the senses, while experts engaged in dialogues about the future of Asian arts.
As an internationally renowned instrumentalist of the pipa (a plucked string instrument with a fretted fingerboard), Wu Man for decades has spared no effort in promoting the traditional Chinese musical instrument throughout the world.
Ancient-book restorers are able to solve the problem. Zhao Ling, who works at Hangzhou Public Library, is an expert in repairing ancient books.
Ten days after the Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list, the Palace Museum in Beijing has opened an exhibition displaying 255 artifacts nationwide related to Liangzhu on July 16.
In 1987, Neil Schmid, then an undergraduate studying Chinese language at Georgetown University in Washington DC, traveled to Dunhuang, Gansu province, for the first time.
Tang Dynasty thriller draws comparisons with US action drama 24 for its daylong timeline, suspenseful plot and high production values, Cheng Yuezhu reports.
A group of 11 students from the Confucius Institute for Dance and Performance of the Goldsmiths, University of London, watch an opera show at Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang City, East China's Jiangsu province.
A cluster of architecture dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221 B.C.-206 B.C.), China's first empire, will be open for the first time from July 16 in the city of Qinhuangdao, north China's Hebei Province.
A stunning production of celebrated Chinese dance master Yang Liping's troupe will make its U.S. premiere at New York's Lincoln Center on Aug. 8, according to the cultural institution.
Grown from a lotus seed that had been dormant underground for more than a hundred years, a lotus flower bloomed at the Old Summer Palace, or Yuanmingyuan in Beijing this week.
Beijing's downtown area is speeding up the preservation of immovable cultural relics as part of a campaign to better protect and utilize the city's cultural heritage amid rapid urbanization, a senior official in the capital said last week.
As the north bakes and the south swelters, China turns to tea.
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