During a visit to a park in southern Beijing, Shi Yifan happened to find a bookstore nestled within woodland. Since then, the 30-year-old has come to read every couple of weeks.
Mini suits, pants, hanfu (traditional Chinese clothing), Victorian dresses — these aren't children's clothes nor costumes, but "doll outfits" that young Chinese adults collect for their figurines.
The recent animated blockbuster Nobody is setting records and moving audiences to tears. Its retelling of the classic tale Journey to the West, colored with references to real-world locations, is inspiring some to make their own journey.
Four years ago, Malaysian writer Li Zishu published her full-length novel Liu Su Di (Worldly Land) on the Chinese mainland.
The Yangtze River Economic Belt, a key national development strategy, encompasses 11 provinces and municipalities, stretching across China's eastern, central, and western regions.
The Yangtze River, a mother river of the Chinese nation and a core pillar of the country's development, is the world's third-longest river and the longest in China.
At a cultural exhibition in Hotan in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in mid-August, audiences watched in silence as polychromatic projections of the region's vibrant Atlas silk, famed for its multicolored resist-dyeing patterns, illuminated a digital screen.
In the 1980s, in the early years of China's reform and opening-up, Bart Dessein, then a young student in Belgium, got to know the term and became deeply interested in what was still in the West a mysterious oriental land.
An academic symposium dedicated to preserving, promoting, and utilizing architectural heritage related to the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45) was held in Wanping City of the Fengtai district in Beijing on Sept 25.
The acrobatic extravaganza ERA celebrated its 20th birthday at Shanghai Circus World on Sept 27, announcing its plan to embark on a residential performance program in Pattaya, Thailand next year.
Covering roughly one-sixth of the total land area of China, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region features diverse geographical landscapes and rich ethnic cultures that have made tourism one of Xinjiang's pillar industries.
As Chinese stories travel across borders through online literature, the medium has become part of the "new three pillars" of China's cultural exports—alongside online dramas and games—serving as a key bridge for sharing traditional Chinese culture with the world.