On July 19, Luo Li, a schoolteacher from Chengdu, Sichuan province, was pulled from a long queue at the National Museum of China in Beijing while waiting to buy one of the museum's most popular collectibles — an empress coronet magnet.
Amid the cool night breeze of Baiyin, a city nestled in Northwest China's Gansu province, the scent of astragalus, angelica, and other herbs permeates the air as crowds gather beneath glowing lights surrounding cupping stations and pulse-reading booths.
"That the present situation i.e. the war is over between July the first and the 30th September 1943, the party of the first part M.T.presents the party of the second part with two bottles of Haig's whisky."
"He always believed he could make it just one more day," wrote Lillian Wuttke DeGiacomo in Just One More Day, a posthumous tribute to her husband, William C Wuttke — author of nearly 100 cartoons capturing the brutal realities he and his fellow POWs endured at Mukden Camp, a Japanese prison camp in Shenyang, Liaoning province in Northeast China, during World War II.
The ongoing exhibition at Plaza 66 on West Nanjing Road in downtown Shanghai is showcasing the 40-years journey of the legendary musical Les Miserables from Aug 9 to 21.
IOC President Kirsty Coventry sent a congratulatory letter to the opening ceremony of the 16th Beijing Olympic City Sports Culture Festival and the sixth "8.8" Beijing Sports Shopping Carnival.
The Spiritual Pursuit of Chinese Civilization, a newly launched book organized by the National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences and published by CITIC Press Group, was officially released at the 33rd National Book Expo in July.
Sound of the Silk Road, a Chinese musical with Broadway elements, is set to return to the stage in Shanghai from Nov 27 to 30, followed by a world tour that will captivate audiences with the culture and history of the Silk Road.
When the curtain rose on the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing on Aug 8, the stage blossomed into a living painting.
When the curtain rose on the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing on Aug 8, the stage blossomed into a living painting.
Traditional Chinese musical instruments, such as the xun (Chinese vessel flute), dizi (Chinese transverse flute), xiao (Chinese vertical end-blown flute), and guqin (Chinese zither), were highlighted during a summer camp from Aug 6 to 8 at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing.
Elegant, composed, and confident, eyes gleaming with focus and hands dancing between flames and appliances is not the image most people conjure up when they imagine a chef. But in Chef of China, a hit reality cooking show, this is exactly the portrait on display.