The 2025 International Youth Poetry Festival—Special Session for China-Latin American nations brought together 40 poets from 15 Latin American and Caribbean countries to explore Xi'an and Shangluo in Shaanxi province, alongside 37 Chinese poets, from Sunday to Thursday.
The Silk Road (Dunhuang) International Cultural Expo a key vehicle for Gansu province to promote Chinese treasures
The Chaozhou Drum, listed as an item of national intangible cultural heritage of China, has integrated elements of wushu (kung fu), resulting in the establishment of the Hungary-Chaozhou International Cultural Exchange and Communication Base on Sunday.
Chinese pianist Wang Liya won the first prize during the 74th edition of the ARD International Music Competition on Sunday in Munich, Germany.
The 2025 International Youth Poetry Festival—Special Session for China-Latin American Countries kicked off in Xi’an, capital of Northwest China’s Shaanxi province, on Sept 15. The event gathered 37 young Chinese poets and 40 young poets from 15 Latin American and Caribbean countries.
An Australian expatriate reflects on how 12 years of living in China reshaped her.
Building on shared maritime cultural roots, and exploring avenues to deepen multifaceted cooperation in the new era, China launched a practical training program for Pacific Island maritime officials. This initiative invites officials to China to enhance their professional skills and strengthen cross-cultural communication.
A sunlit loft in Long Island City houses a miniature world stitched together by time. Hand-carved puppets, silk costumes and calligraphy brushes sit beside projectors, laptops and stage lights.
Late August saw Guangzhou transform into a living stage for verse, where voices from across continents converged in celebration of poetry's power to bridge cultures.
"One will always notice that as societies advance toward civility and refinement, people tend to build impressive structures before they learn to cultivate gardens with care and elegance."
William Chambers (1723-96) wrote in his landmark Enlightenment-era book, A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening (1772): "Such is the common scenery of the Chinese gardens … their artists never fail to improve upon its singularities: their aim is to excite a great variety of passions in the mind of spectators; and the fertility of their imagination, always upon the stretch in search of novelty, furnishes them with a thousand artifices to accomplish that aim."
As the credits rolled on the Chinese film Dead to Rights in a German cinema on the evening of Aug 28, Sarah Bahadra sat completely stunned, her eyes glistening. In a voice barely above a whisper, she says she was overwhelmed, describing the film as "too sad …really horrible".