Mario Vargas Llosa led a multi-persona life. He wrote plays, worked as a bank clerk, and even ran for president of Peru in 1990. Yet amid his bustling life, the writer also turned his gaze toward Chinese readers. He visited ...
In an exclusive interview with the Global Times, he reflected on his musical career, shared his philosophy, discussed his views on artificial intelligence (AI), and expressed his hopes for young musicians and the future of Chinese original music.
The much-awaited The Wandering Earth 3, the latest chapter in China's blockbuster sci-fi saga, began filming on Tuesday in Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province. The launch ceremony, graced by director Guo Fan and lead actors Wu Jing and Shen Teng, ...
China's top film regulator announced on Thursday the plan to moderately reduce the number of US films imported, China's state broadcaster CCTV reported on Thursday.
Hong Kong has been promoting its unique role as an East-meets-West center for international cultural exchange with frequent cultural collaboration and exchanges with the mainland, emphasizing its innovative expression of Chinese traditional culture, said Chang Wai-yuen, director of Office of ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping watched a performance of the Grand Song of the Dong ethnic group, a form of a folk chorus inscribed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list, in the Zhaoxing Dong Village in Liping County ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed the importance of adhering to high-quality development and driving growth by further deepening reform and opening-up comprehensively, during his inspection in Southwest China's Guizhou Province from Monday to Tuesday, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
The rapid development of AI technology in the film and TV industry and the export of China's cultural productions, including TV and film works, are the focus of the ongoing Entertainment Expo Hong Kong 2025. Including the International Film and ...
Chinese animated blockbuster Ne Zha 2 has surpassed Disney's Star Wars: The Force Awakens to secure the fifth spot on the all-time global box office charts on Saturday after crossing 15.1 billion yuan ($2.09 billion) in total earnings, according to ...
Chinese animated film Ne Zha 2 has surpassed the global box-office earnings of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, breaking into the top 5 at the global box office on Saturday with a total box office of 15.2 billion yuan ($20.75 ...
After seeing the incredible box office gains and reviews for Ne Zha 2 outside of China, Peter, an Australian filmmaker who lives in Brisbane, became curious about what the animated film is about and decided to judge its quality himself ...
Editor's Note: With the rapid development of AI tools such as DeepSeek, ChatGPT, and Doubao, these cutting-edge technologies are integrating with and influencing the protection, inheritance, and innovation of traditional Chinese culture in an unprecedented manner. These AI tools are ...
China's MMA fighter Zhang Weili recently defended her UFC Strawweight title against top-ranked Tatiana Suarez from the US at UFC 312. In an exclusive interview with the Global Times on Thursday, Zhang likened herself to the character "Ne Zha" in ...
Chinese animated film Ne Zha 2 made global history as the world's highest-grossing film in a single market on Friday. It beat Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, which made $936.7 million in North America. As of 10 ...
As of 7:58 pm on Saturday, China's total box office revenue (including presales) for the 2025 Spring Festival film season had reached 6 billion yuan ($827.44 million), according to Chinese ticketing platform Maoyan.
A small plane crashed in a neighborhood of northeast Philadelphia on Friday, sparking a large fire, authorities said.
The Spring Festival is not only deeply and culturally rooted, it's also “blooming and flourishing. The changes of the times have given new meanings to the festival. From the Spring Festival travel rush and Spring Festival galas to new customs ...
Editor's Note: Today, a fresh wave of neo-Chinese aesthetics, rooted in tradition and blended with contemporary innovation, is reaching people not just in China, but all over the world. Like a spring breeze that turns into a nourishing rain, it flows ...
As the Spring Festival approaches, lantern and light festivals are lighting up cities across China. A giant peony lantern was recently installed at Beijing's Qianmen area, drawing both locals and tourists eager to soak in the festive atmosphere.
A new unstriped Ichthyophis was found in Southwest China's Yunnan Province, the Kunming Institute of Zoology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced on Thursday. The new species is named Ichthyophis yangi. The finding was published in Asian Herpetological Research.
In the first morning of 2025, Chinese girl Xiao Mei, in her 30s, queued in front of the National Museum of China in Beijing for the Ancient China exhibition.
Since it was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site ten years ago, China's Grand Canal has become a green, culturally brilliant and characteristic tourism belt thanks to the country's efforts in protection and inheritance.
At the ping-pong table, Chinese table tennis players Ma Long and Liu Shiwen pick up their paddles to partner in a mixed doubles match. If you are a seasoned ping-pong fan, you might find this scene a bit strange as ...
It has been 32 years. The 78-year-old Liu Zhonghan still remembers every word in "Ah! Kuliang," a 1,800-word article he published on the People's Daily in 1992.
Stepping into Hou Kong Middle School in South China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR), the first thing that catches the eye is a wall of the school displaying “Warm Congratulations on the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's ...
From destruction to restoration of the cathedral, we can see that when facing disasters, as long as we, human beings, have enough determination and wisdom, we can often create miracles. The restoration is gratifying, but it also reminds us to ...
Now living in Norway, Beijinger "Nuowei Lao Wang" has celebrated the Spring Festival with his Norwegian family and friends for the past two years. They make dumplings, watch the Spring Festival gala, and play mahjong together. His friends have gotten ...
A report highlighting China's continuous efforts in recent years to secure cultural access for individuals with visual impairments was released on Tuesday, International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
Qiong Yao, one of the bestselling Chinese romance writers, died in New Taipei City at the age of 86 on Wednesday. According to the local police and fire department, the writer was found deceased after taking her own life at ...
A new exhibition opened on Tuesday at the World Art Museum of China Millennium Monument to showcase the wisdom and value of China's fine traditional culture. The digital art exhibition focuses on Su Shi, also known as Su Dongpo, one ...
The Global Panda Partners 2024, an event that promotes giant panda culture and global exchanges, kicked off on Tuesday in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, with the theme "Harmony between Humans and Nature."
The British Library has expanded its Chinese collection by adding 10 online novels by Chinese authors, including Lord of the Mysteries, Soul Land, and The Joy of Life, a testament to the cultural significance and rapid development of internet literature ...
Editor's Note: In an era marked by unprecedented global transformations, the world stands at a critical crossroads, grappling with deepening deficits in peace, development, security, and governance. As humanity faces unparalleled challenges during this tumultuous period, Xi Jinping, general secretary of ...
A series of cross-Straits cultural exchange activities were recently held at the ongoing China Golden Rooster & Hundred Flowers Film Festival, China's top film awards ceremony, which is being held from Wednesday to Saturday in the coastal city of Xiamen, ...
For digital artist Mike Winkelmann, more commonly known as Beeple, Nanjing in East China's Jiangsu Province holds significant meaning for him as this is where he will host his first solo museum show at the Deji Art Museum on Thursday. ...
Online novels, online dramas, and online games are considered the "three carriages" that have brought contemporary Chinese culture overseas in recent years.
It's no question that Christopher Nolan's movie Interstellar is considered one of the greatest sci-fi movies, constantly discussed not only because of its compelling storyline and dazzling special effects, but also for sticking to established science, while any speculation remains ...
“If we can increase the detection sensitivity by two to three orders of magnitude, we expect that we will be close to possible traces of dark matter in 10 years,” Liu Jianglai, a professor from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and ...
French artist Bernar Venet stunned visitors in Paris with his monumental sculpture ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics this past summer. Standing 18 meters (60 feet) tall and weighing approximately 40 tons, the Corten steel sculpture, titled Convergence: 54.5° Arc ...
"Socialist literature and art is, in essence, the literature and art of the people," said Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese president, at a symposium on literature and art in Beijing ...
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Chinese business pioneer and philanthropist Tan Kah Kee's birth, various events were held across the country to pass on the legacy of this national figure.
With "integration and dialogue" as the theme, the 2024 Hong Kong-Macao Visual Art Biennale kicked off on Friday in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province. Young artists from Hong Kong, Macao, and Zhejiang are expected to present a visual feast for ...
Tan Dun is not a new face at the Beijing Music Festival. The Academy Award and Grammy Award winner for his music score in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has been a frequent visitor to one of the biggest ...
A Chinese concert by the show Super Chinese Style Music presented an audio-visual feast that combined traditional Chinese aesthetics with popular youth elements to audiences in the Yinzhou district of Ningbo in East China's Zhejiang Province on Tuesday.
Editor's Note: From exquisite craftsmanship to traditional Chinese medicine, and from solemn rituals to vibrant folk art, intangible cultural heritages weave a rich tapestry of Chinese identity, decorating the various facets of contemporary Chinese people's lives. In this series, the ...
In 2013, Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Zhou Long created Jiu Ge, or Nine Odes, a whole evening symphonic epic based on the poems called Nine Songs by ancient Chinese poet Qu Yuan. This marked the first time that a full, large-scale ...
China's 2024 National Day holidays box office, including previews and presales, exceeded 800 million yuan ($113.98 million) as of 14:48 on Wednesday, according to ticketing platform Maoyan. War epic The Volunteers: The Battle of Life and Death, science fiction adventure ...
Bakuo Street in Lhasa Old Town is a place that every visitor to Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region can't miss as the "heart of Lhasa" is not only a well-known bustling bazaar for tourists but also a place to chase ...
A new exhibition at the China Art Museum in Shanghai is the first to systematically display the academic lineage of Chinese painting at the China Academy of Art, Jin Yibin, the Party chief of China's top fine art academy, said ...
Cultural exchanges between China and other countries in 2023 showed a rapid recovery and positive trajectory, thanks to a focus on balancing security and development while prioritizing cooperation and mutual benefit, says the Report on China's Cultural Exchanges with the ...
As the world faces challenges from threats, disputes, and misunderstandings, we need to work together to showcase different cultures, learn about them, respect them, and learn from each one, said various scholars and experts at the 2024 Beijing Culture Forum ...
Wearing a shabby helmet and riding a scooter up and down on the bumpy dirt road, she finally drove to the door of a student's house but saw someone coming to propose marriage.
Dancers from the most renowned troupes in the world performed by the seaside in Qinhuangdao, North China's Hebei Province for the Move to Move International Dance Festival, which ran from Sunday to Tuesday during this year's Mid-Autumn Festival holidays. ...
The 2024 Beijing Culture Forum will kick off in the Chinese capital from September 19 to 21, according to its organizers. With a permanent theme of "Inheritance, Creativity, Mutual Learning," the forum has "Enhance Cultural Exchanges for Common Progress" as ...
The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (SSO) kicked off its 2024-25 season on Sunday with a grand opening concert.
"In the 16-year history of the Beijing Fringe Festival, people have come and gone, but the young gaze, heartbeat and young feeling have always been there for the festival," said Meng Jinghui, artistic director of the Beijing Fringe Festival, on ...
Chinese and Russian film industries will benefit from cooperation opportunities and reach the new beginning of a new era, Moscow's culture head said at the press day for the Moscow International Film Week this week.
People were queuing outside Moscow's Khudozhestvenny Cinema, the city's and one of the world's oldest movie theaters, for the opening of the first Moscow International Film Week on Friday night.
Big Fish & Begonia, Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child, New Gods: Yang Jian... Chinese animated works inspired by China's folk myths have introduced Chinese imagination and aesthetics to international audiences one after another. The rising box-office revenue and hot ...
Chinese animated show Zhanshen debuted on Chinese streaming platforms on July 31. Two days later, the first episode had received over 100,000 likes on TikTok, with numerous discussions in various languages such as English, Thai, Indonesian and Russian. They were ...
A total of eight Chinese films, including four animated films, will be screened at the upcoming Moscow International Film Week, which is scheduled to run from August 23 to 28 in Moscow.
She is called China's Sleeping Beauty as the 2,200-year-old lady looks nearly as good as when she was buried after she died at the age of about 50, in China's Western Han Dynasty (206BC-AD25).
China's national anthem was one of the most heard pieces of music at the Paris Olympic Games as Team China grabbed 40 gold medals, which means the national anthem "March of the Volunteers" was played 40 times.
The celebrated Chinese composer and conductor Tan Dun will conduct the China Symphony Orchestra together with suona performer Liu Wenwen, violin player Lu Wei and celloist Wang Jian to kick off the annual Beijing Music Festival on October 5, 2024, ...
A new project that aims to aid in the return of Chinese historical and cultural relics scattered in Japan was launched in Japan on Tuesday. Among the first batch of relics to be returned to their home country are Ming ...
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni attended the opening of an exhibition paying tribute to Marco Polo at the China Millennium Monument in Beijing on Monday as part of her first state visit to China since she took office.
"Beijing Central Axis: A Building Ensemble Exhibiting the Ideal Order of the Chinese Capital" was named as a World Heritage Site at the 46th session of the World Heritage Committee in New Delhi, India, on Saturday, becoming China's 59th entry ...
"Distant water can't put out a nearby fire, and a distant relative is not as helpful as a close neighbor."
She once performed the guzheng solo “Ritual Music - Spring Moonlight on the Flowers by the River” at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, which won her the nickname of “Guzheng Fairy.”
Sitting next to me is a young boy about 10 years old. He has two bright eyes and attractive long eyelashes that sparkle when he talks. In fact, he lost his vision due to optic atrophy caused by a sudden ...
Lü Xingyue has been a frequent visitor to Ningbo Library in East China's Zhejiang Province since she was two and a half years old. She listens to stories and plays games with teachers, learns about intangible cultural heritage, visits exhibitions, ...
Mahler, Brahms, Mozart, Copland... In Shanghai, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (NYPO) treated music lovers with two splendid nights of performances at the Shanghai Symphony Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday as part of the Music in the Summer Air (MISA) ...
As people from all over the world engaged in the grand parade for the 78th Avignon Festival in France on Tuesday, an Indian dancer in her traditional attire showed her admiration with a thumbs-up while having a friendly interaction ...
We all know that knowledge is power. However, in terms of our daily lives, design can be powerful, inspiring, and enlightening, bringing in the new quality productive forces to make life easier and better.
We all know that knowledge is power. However, in terms of our daily lives, design can be powerful, inspiring, empowering and enlightening, bringing in the new quality productive forces to make life easier and better.
Chinese martial arts TV series The Legend of Heroes, or Jin Yong's Marital Arts World, has debuted on various platforms including Netflix and YouTube, igniting the enthusiasm of overseas audiences for wuxia, or martial arts.
Over 300 renowned online writers, cartoonists, animators and short drama creators as well as other TV and drama creators participated in the 2024 China Literature Online Creation Conference in Huangshan, East China's Anhui Province, on Wednesday.
China's online novels have benefited from the booming short drama industry, the intellectual proper-ty (IP) adaptions as well as fast developing AI tools, according to the Online Creation Conference running from Wednesday and Thursday in Huangshan, East China's Anhui Province. ...
When the metaverse meets museums, visitors are able to travel to the past to build ancient buildings, travel with ferocious wild beasts like lions and white elephants in Chinese legends. Digital displays of cultural relics have increasingly become an important ...
The Party School of the CPC Central Committee (National Academy of Governance) recently held a dialogue on traditional Chinese culture and cultural exchanges for officials, experts and deputies from Laos, Sri Lanka, the Republic of the Congo and Algeria.
From paintings, urban designs to AIGC videos and installations, the artworks from 2,868 graduates of the China Academy of Art (CAA) this year have turned the city of Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province into the sea of art in eight exhibition ...
The Ming-style chair must be one of the most well-known pieces of Chinese furniture in the world, because of its precious wood, comfortable design, simple decoration and superb craftsmanship.
Tender yet powerful, culture opens up windows for Chinese and Americans to understand each other and builds bridges between hearts.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday extended a warm welcome to US tourists to travel to China, meet Chinese friends, experience Chinese culture, visit beautiful landscapes and experience the real China, in a congratulatory message to the 14th China-US ...
"Drop the drawbridge. Open the City Gate. Welcome the distinguished guests!" As the ancient City Wall gates slowly opened, guests for the 14th China-US Tourism Leadership Summit were led into the city for a special journey and experience of Tang ...
In 2011, a documentary about China, A Journey to the Yangtze River, aired in Japan and turned into a hit, making Japanese director Ryo Takeuchi known to both Chinese and Japanese audiences. But that film left Takeuchi with one regret: ...
Jingdezhen, known as the "porcelain capital" in East China's Jiangxi Province, has a ceramic history of over 2,000 years. On the outskirts of Jingdezhen, there is a traditional wood-fired kiln called Gong Hua Kiln, which has been used for over ...
China's traditional operas are in. Young Yue Opera actress Chen Lijun recently appeared on the show Ride the Wind 2024, bringing traditional culture to the stage of the popular show and stunning audiences with a performance in which opera ...
In a grand ceremony held on Wednesday in the Russian Embassy in Beijing, two sculptures portraying the renowned Russian novelist Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) and his Chinese counterpart Lu Xun (1881-1936), who was the most influential representative of the cultural and ...
Editor's Note: The Foochow Arsenal is a precious industrial and cultural heritage site that stands as a witness to China's Self-Strengthening Movement and a memorable chapter in the country's modernization journey. Within the Museum of Foochow Arsenal 1866 is the statue ...
Songs are just songs, but only French songs can be called chansons. With her interpretation of the song “Les Champs-Élysées” in both French and Chinese when participating in the show Ride the Wind 2024, French chanteuse Joyce Jonathan helps the ...
In Budapest, capital of East European country Hungary, signs, characters and cultural elements of the far Asian country of China are easily spotted as the China Cultural Center in the city aims to help more Hungarian people learn about China ...
The United States Golf Association (USGA) hopes to deepen cooperation with the China Golf Association (CGA) and resume events such as the China-US Youth Team Competition and US Women's Open Championship Qualifying, Wei Qingfeng, secretary-general of CGA, confirmed with the ...
Chinese mini TV series To The Wonder won applause at its recent Asian premiere for its light plot, simple and natural audio-visual effects and innovative adaption.
Standing in the streets of Beijing in 1978, Gregoire de Gaulle, a 23-year-old French young man, was on his first visit to the faraway country and was eager to take everything he saw with a camera in hand.
The 2024 Aranya Theater Festival will be held in Qinhuangdao, North China's Hebei Province from June 20 to 30. The theater festival will bring together 29 plays from 17 countries. For the first time, nine artistic directors from national theater ...
Days before World Book Day on April 23, the Global Times Institute and China Literature released the Generation Z Digital Reading Report on Saturday, outlining the digital reading habits of Gen Zers (generally referring to people who were born after ...
As one of the countries with the longest history of garden art, China has played a very important role in the global history of gardens. Gardens in the regions south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China, ...
An international symposium on the concept of intercultural exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations was held Monday at the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris, the French capital.
The 61st Bologna Children's Book Fair kicked off in Italy on Monday with the participation of 1,500 exhibitors from around 100 countries and regions across the world. As the Market of Focus country this year, China, is hosting a number ...
On the first day of China's Qingming Festival holiday, actors dressed in the traditional clothing or armors of the ancient Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) recreated one of the dynasty's grand ceremonies.
On Monday afternoon, the world top-class exhibition The Forbidden City and the Palace of Versailles: Exchanges Between China and France in the 17th and 18th Centuries officially opened at the Palace Museum. Officials and guests from both countries said the ...
An exhibition featuring valuable artifacts from the residences of Napoleon Bonaparte opened to the public in Beijing on Saturday as one of the activities to mark the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France.
A new exhibition at the China Millennium Monument's Beijing World Art Museum, The Song of the Earth: Artistic Documentary for a Better China, documents a total of 100 cases around the vast land to interpret the concept of a "Better ...
The Song of the Earth: Artistic Documentary for a Better China exhibition hosted by the China Academy of Art kicked off on Wednesday at the China Millennium Monument's Beijing World Art Museum.
Hello everyone! I am a small potato from Northwest China's Gansu Province, far far away from most of the big cities. I used to envy my cousin who grew up in the Northeast, who is indispensable in the renowned dish ...
Two statues stand in the Avenue of Stars, framed by the Victoria Harbour view of Tsim Sha Tsui, in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). One is the international kung fu film star Bruce Lee, the other is Hong ...
In her hands, the pipa seems to come alive as each touch of Chinese performer Zhao Cong makes magic come from the traditional Chinese musical instrument. On the stage of the G20 Hangzhou summit along the West Lake, East China's ...
A little-known story dating back to the World War II is now becoming known around the world with the help of Chinese and US musicians, who are staging the musical concert Émigré at David Geffen Hall on Thursday and Friday ...
Online novels, games, and film and television works have developed into the "troika" of Chinese culture going overseas, says the 2023 Report on the Development of Chinese Online Literature released by the Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences ...
A new textbook on the subject of the community of the Chinese Nation has been released by China's Higher Education Press and the Ethnic Publishing House. The Outline of the Community of the Chinese Nation was completed under the guidance ...
Online novels, games and film and television works have developed into the "troika" of Chinese culture going overseas, according to the 2023 Report on the Development of Chinese Online Literature released by the Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social ...
The world knows Sherlock Holmes because of the British author Arthur Conan Doyle and his detective book series about Holmes; while the West knows Di Renjie or Judge Dee, China's Sherlock Holmes thanks to Dutch diplomat and sinologist Robert van ...
The Yuewen Global IP Awards were aired on Chinese streaming giant Tencent Video on Monday night, marking a new start for China's online literature and reflecting its ambition to establish a global presence.
What a wonderful night! The audiences must have been marveled by the chemistry of traditional Chinese musical instruments erhu, pipa and flute meeting their Western counterparts the cello and piano as musicians from the China National Traditional Orchestra and the ...
The opera Roméo et Juliette by French composer Charles Gounod and the stage drama Les Misérables by French director Jean Bellorini are perfect proof of the fruitful cultural exchanges between China and France over the past 60 years
A visitor is intensely studying a painting, being careful not to miss a single detail. From her intense concentration, one can tell that the painting is special. It is the Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies, a masterpiece ...
A visitor is viewing a painting very carefully, afraid of missing a tiny detail in such a precious painting. It is the painting "Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies" by Chinese painter Gu Kaizhi, a masterpiece considered a ...
A metal bed sits in the middle of the rehearsal stage. Chinese actor Liu Ye stands next to it, sometimes whispering and sometimes running around the bed. With days left before the preview of the Chinese edition of French classic ...
A documentary titled Across the Straits, which depicts the cultural bond between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, went online on January 15, captivating viewers through the historical and cultural bonds between the two sides.
It has been a couple weeks since December 26, 2023, the day that marked the 130th anniversary of the birth of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong. People from all walks of life flocked to the Mao Zedong Square in Shaoshan, ...
It was rainy but warm as the sun, from time to time, shone on a school in Shaoshan, Central China's Hunan Province, where late Chinese leader Mao Zedong was born 130 years ago.
In Athens, two Chinese dramas were staged in early December during the first Sino-Hellenic International Theater Festival - The Prince of Lanling, a general of the Northern Qi Dynasty (550-557), and The New Legend of the White Snake, which blended ...
It is freezing cold in Beijing as the city is suffering a wave of extreme cold. However, this hasn't stopped young people's enthusiasm for theater as the Beijing International Theater Center on Tuesday night hosted the drama Those Who Survived, ...
The fast development of AI-generated content (AIGC), especially AI translation, is accelerating the speed at which China's online novels are being introduced to the world, while global online writers tend to flock to a common platform to expand the world's ...
While winter has been warm in Liangshan, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, the theaters have been outright hot, with over 200 performances being staged across the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture as part of a theater festival set to run until December ...
With the huge roar of the engine, a giant PLA Air Force fighter jet slices through the sky over a field in an upward maneuver to drive away foreign aircrafts during a combat patrol. For visually impaired Gen-Zer Shen Ke, ...
Just like many of his peers, Lang Jiaziyu, who was born into a cultural heritage family in 1995, loves basketball, manga and most importantly China's traditional culture. As a third-generation inheritor of the Chinese intangible cultural heritage (ICH) known as ...
A girl jumps off a building after being sexually assaulted while the perpetrator spreads rumors and frames her. The upcoming realist film Trending Topic, which is set to hit big screens in China on Thursday, zooms in on today's unpredictable ...
Yangzhou in East China's Jiangsu Province is not only known for its cuisine and well-designed gardens, but also for the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, a group of eight well-known Chinese painters active in the eighteenth century during the Qing Dynasty(1644-1911). ...
It must be a dream team in the classical music world as some of top musicians from China and the US gathered in Shanghai for a four-year co-commissioned work. The oratorio, Émigré, commissioned by Maestro Long Yu, the Shanghai Symphony ...
To perform or not to perform? This is no longer a question for performing artists as the COVID-19 pandemic is over. The only question that lies ahead now is how to unite as one to boost the performing arts on ...
Editor's Note: Chinese people believe that letters are as valuable as gold. For thousands of years, letters, across mountains and oceans, have been delivering the writers' sentiments, friendship, and expectations. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central ...
With a simple fitness tracker and a mobile phone, Amaris Malfa, a young Bostonian, "walked" into the ancient Chinese painting An Era in Nanjing, and even interacted with the people depicted there-in.
On Friday, the Philadelphia Orchestra will perform a 50th anniversary concert with the China National Symphony Orchestra at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing. They will also visit Shanghai and Suzhou.
Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's vibrant spirit, the China Academy of Art recently held the Proposal to Leonardo da Vinci - Shanghai Science and Technology Art Exhibition and the 7th International Cross-Media Art Festival in Shanghai.
As the television and movie industry booms, Hengdian is a fertile ground with opportunities everywhere. The important thing is that one must be able to endure hardship and loneliness, and hone their acting seriously.
China's film and TV industry has shown strong recovery as 160 films were under the spotlight at Hengdian, “China's #Hollywood.” Confidence in a bright future is high among actors, extras and producers.
From the eclectic myths surrounding Pangu - the first man, who is said to have separated heaven and earth, setting the sun, moon, stars, and planets in place, and dividing the four seas aside, or even those of the birth ...
Hengdian, known as "China's Hollywood," as it is the world's largest film and TV base, aims to promote itself and its vast film and TV productions through the Hengdian Film and TV Festival on Thursday and Friday in East China's ...
Chinese publications about China's rich cultural heritage, mystical traditional Chinese medicine, and many other topics including economic, history, and technology, as well as the country's booming web novel genre, have drawn attention from overseas publishers and readers at the ongoing ...
A total of 49 abstract paintings created from the 1970s to the present by six Hungarian artists are on display at the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) for an exhibition called The Journey, Abstract Art of Hungary.
At around 140 BC during China's Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian, a royal emissary, made a journey to the West from Chang'an (present-day Xi'an in Shaanxi Province), opening an overland route linking East and West. Centuries later, in the years of ...
When classic music meets a 1961 Chinese animation on the stage of Beijing Music Festival, it brings not only joy of experiencing one of the best Chinese animated films, The Monkey King, but also the fest to ears by instruments ...
It may not be the most well-known music piece from Oscar-winning musician Tan Dun, but it is probably his most practiced one as he and his Martial Arts Trilogy in Sight and Sound has been touring around in the world ...
Beethoven's Symphony No.6, also known as the Pastoral Symphony, is widely acknowledged as one of Beethoven's few unambiguously programmatic works, and the composer subtitled it “Recollections of Country Life.”
In the wake of the approximately 2,000 artifacts stolen from the British Museum, another museum in Cologne, Germany, was robbed, resulting in the loss of valuable Chinese porcelain of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Calls for the return of looted ...
A new exhibition featuring art works from children as well as other creative products has kicked off at Beijing's China Millennium Monument Museum. The aim of the Design Education for Children show, also part of Beijing International Design Week, is ...
Chinese people have long had a profound fascination with the ocean, giving rise to numerous stories and a deep connection with the sea. These maritime tales have served as inspiration for ancient literary works such as the Classic of Mountains ...
"The world needs China and global cooperation," said Erik Solheim, a former under-secretary-general of the United Nations, on Wednesday in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, at the first Golden Panda International Cultural Forum.
The final results of the first Golden Panda Awards will be unveiled at a gala on Wednesday night. Twenty-five cute gold panda statuettes are set to find their owners soon. Producers, directors, actors, and jury members from around the world ...
Pandas can be seen everywhere in Chengdu, as the city in Southwest China's Sichuan Province has decorated every street corner and shop with the hometown mascot ahead of the first Golden Panda Awards on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Confucius Institute at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia aims to become a window for Serbian people to learn Chinese language and understand Chinese culture, and bridge for educational and cultural exchanges between the two countries, Chen Xiu, ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping not only greatly values culture, he has also developed a profound understanding of it. For him, culture plays a unique and irreplaceable role in the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the building of a global community ...
In Chinese, there is a saying that compares a great work of art to an eternal flame that is passed down from generation to generation. The tale of the three generations of the Luo family and their contributions to cultural ...
Changzhou hosted the China Open from 2018 to 2021. In 2022, the city won the hosting rights for the tournament again for 2023-26. Why do the Super 1000 events so favor this city?
China will establish a new international award ceremony for cultural exchanges, which include films and TV series, in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, according to a press conference on Saturday in Beijing.
China will release international awards covering areas of cultural exchange which include films and TV series, in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, according to a press conference on Saturday in Beijing.
As ancient China's central institution of higher learning, Guozijian, established in the Sui Dynasty (581-618), received a large number of international students from neighboring kingdoms and regions, which are present-day Ryukyu Islands of Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and Vietnam.
Chinese President Xi Jinping not only greatly values culture, he has also developed a profound understanding of it. For him, culture plays a unique and irreplaceable role in the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the building of a global community ...
For 66-year-old veteran actor Fu Chong, his dream since childhood will come true as the drama version of the Chinese war epic Heroic Sons and Daughters in which he starred is staged at the National Centre for the Performing Arts ...
The essence of Beijing as an outstanding example of ancient China's capital really lies in its 7.8-kilometer-long Central Axis, which starts from the south of the city at Yongding Gate, runs across Zhengyang Gate, Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, Jingshan ...
It is an unremarkable tombstone that looks like the stone used in the stairs in front of mansions during ancient times. However, it is actually the only remaining evidence in Beijing of the Ryukyuans burial sites in Zhangjiawan, the capital's ...
The intense summer heat in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province, which can reach highs of 40 C, doesn't deter visitors waiting in front of the Liangzhu National Archaeological Site Park, hoping to visit the UNESCO-listed site and learn about the ...
Ten days after its debut on the silver screen, the animated film Chang An is making history as a dark horse during China's bustling summer movie-going season by taking in as much as 600 million yuan ($84 million) at the ...
For Miusa, a young singer from the island of Taiwan, coming to the Chinese mainland to perform in a variety shows means a lot of "firsts," including her maiden visit to the Chinese mainland, the first time taking part in ...
The ancient Pingjiang Road is one of the top tourist attractions in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu Province, as seen from the crowds of visitors during the ongoing summer vacation. It is a wellpreserved ancient block of Suzhou's old town, whose ...
The Da He Bronze Ding (food vessel) with Human-mask Design and the Boar-shaped Bronze Zun (wine vessel) from the Shang dynasty (c.1600BC-1046BC), the printed and painted floss silk padded gauze robe, a T-shaped painting on silk from Xin Zhui's tomb ...
On June 25, Yin Ruoning wrote herself into China's sports history as she clinched the Women's Professional Golf Association (PGA) Championship in New Jersey, the US, making her the second woman from the Chinese mainland to win a major golf ...
A grand theatrical float parade, warm seaside bonfire parties, numerous theater performances… the Aranya Gold Coast Community on the coast of Qinhuangdao in North China's Hebei Province turned into a sea of joy for theater enthusiasts during the recent Aranya ...
With a simple needle moving up and down on a piece of cloth, a delicate flower begins to take shape under her hands. Watching Yao Jianping doing embroidery is just like watching a ballet performance of fingers; it is both ...
The second issue of the Xivilization series focuses on Xi's call for preserving and inheriting the brilliant, ancient Chinese civilization, and how the traditional culture and Marxism combine to contribute to building Chinese modernization.
A well-known Chinese proverb goes: "Above there is heaven and below there are Suzhou and Hangzhou." Heaven can be very far and beyond our reach, but Suzhou in East China's Jiangsu Province is very close especially thanks to China's ...
Melodious and lingering folk songs from the Yao people, an energetic bear fighting dance by the Oroqen people, the drama Zhuangjiaqi from the Tu people… The documentary series Amid Lucid Waters and Lush Mountains that is currently airing on China's ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) to develop itself into an art venue that enjoys worldwide prestige.
Chinese drama Gen Z, focusing on the inheritance of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), has raised young people's attention and interest in this world renowned heritage. The show's director Han Xiaojun said he hopes "more audiences can benefit from the TV ...
With 73 days left to go before the 31st FISU Summer World University Games, Chengdu in Southwest China's Sichuan Province hosted a world press briefing on Monday to tell the world that the city is ready to host an international ...
Chinese streaming giants are releasing the slates for their upcoming dramas, movies and variety shows, hoping to attract more and more audiences from home and aboard.
China will release the world's first high-fidelity virtual giant panda and a metaverse-like world in which it will live, China's forestry and grassland authority announced on Tuesday.
Musicals will become a new way to learn about one of the greatest 20th century archaeological finds in China: the mysterious Sanxingdui Ruins in Southwest China's Sichuan Province.
After China optimized its COVID prevention and control policy, Hengqin in Zhuhai of South China's Guangdong Province has been well-known among music fans as China's new international leisure tourism island hosting various music festivals to attract more travelers.
Young panda breeders whose daily job is to prepare three meals a day for these cute creatures, conservationists who dive under the waters of the South China Sea to tie coral to the seedbed and soldiers who guard the border ...
After months of waiting, the final results for the Perfect World Campus Art Design Award 2022 have been announced, with dozens of young Chinese college students winning prizes for their creative work.
The Dunhuang Mogao Caves, which are over 1,600 years old, have recently been in the spotlight in Chinese fantasy costume drama Till the End of the Moon. The show has captivated overseas audiences with its stunning portrayal of traditional Chinese ...
A diverse array of events for World Book and Copyright Day and World Intellectual Property Day have kicked off in Beijing in April, with the hustle and bustle of book fairs at the capital's Xidan Book Building and Chaoyang Park ...
Life was loved so much in the culture of Pharaonic Egypt that its rulers wanted to live forever. For millennia, generation after generation, the Egyptians spared no effort to guarantee eternity: tombs, myths, rites, mummies, tomb goods...
A song that won singer A Xi first place in a competition on Thursday to commemorate cooperation and exchanges in the Guangdong-Macao In-depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin, an island just across from the Macao Special Administrative Region that falls under ...
China's rapidly developing online literature has become a bridge for cultural exchanges due to a 2022 national reading campaign aimed at encouraging a passion for reading, says the Report on the Development of Chinese Online Literature 2022, released on Monday ...
Only a few hours after having landed in Beijing on Wednesday, French President Emmanuel Macron appeared at the 17th Croisements Festival, a key event to the 2023 China-France cultural exchanges, at the Chinese capital's Red Brick Art Museum.
Prokofiev, Korsakov, Tchaikovsky… Russian music filled the iconic classical music hall at Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) on Monday during a performance by veteran Russian conductor Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra, one of the oldest musical ...
A nearly 100-year-old book about China's silk embroidery is being published as a new version with annotations from renowned Chinese scholar Shen Congwen thanks to collaboration between Beijing Yanshan Press and the Beijing United Publishing Company.
By going abroad, Chinese games and e-sports can spread Chinese concepts and worldviews to the rest of the world and showcase the charm of Chinese culture with a more confident attitude, said experts and participants when attending a seminar on ...
The ongoing Hong Kong International Film & TV Market (FILMART) has returned after three years as a virtual trade show, with nearly 700 exhibitors from more than 25 countries and regions. Asia's largest and most influential film market has attracted ...
It was a wonderful Sunday night for both the audience sitting in the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Hall and the Shanghai Quartet on the stage as the internationally acclaimed string quartet was back where their chamber music legend started four decades ...
The rapid development of technology is changing the world in every aspect, including the art world. Crypto art, art preserved as part of a blockchain in the form of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, has stormed Beijing's CAFA Art Museum with ...
It is a story about being far away from home for decades, then one day returning to reunite with family members and dealing with deep-rooted memories, nostalgia and homesickness.
By the end of 2022, China's online literature (OL) had attracted around 170 million overseas readers, according to a report jointly published Sunday by the Global Times Research Center and China Literature Limited (CLL) - the industry's leading platform. The ...
Shu Yong is super busy as a new CPPCC National Committee member, and he has submitted three proposals covering topics such as rural revitalization. He hopes to create national cultural symbols that tell Chinese stories about the new era.
It is the first time Zhao Cong has been a member of the CPPCC National Committee, a top political advisory body in China. Zhao, president of the China National Traditional Orchestra (CNTO) and renowned pipa performer, has submitted a proposal ...
The statue of Chinese model soldier Lei Feng was unveiled on Wednesday at Beijing's downtown Wangfujing Street to mark the 60th anniversary of the call to learn from Lei Feng by Mao Zedong and other older generation revolutionaries.
