As temperatures soar and schools break for summer, China's film market is heating up alongside the weather — entering its longest and one of the most lucrative box-office season of the year.
When my parents' house burned down in Michigan in the United States a few years ago, my Tibetan friends insisted it was good luck.
An iconic trunk with an immersive tunnel featuring Guilin (in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region) landscape projections and a foldable 1986 Monogram coated-canvas trunk that transforms into a bed alongside century-old perfume bottles — these are some of the highlights of Louis Vuitton's new cultural landmark, The Louis, in Shanghai.
About 6,000 years ago, ancient people in North China's Liaohe River Basin developed advanced ritualistic sacrificial systems that reflected the path and characteristics of Chinese civilization.
For years, exhibitions about Confucius have focused on profound culture and grand rituals that exposed the audience to the philosopher's teachings enshrined as sacred texts.
The Chinese opera The Long March, created by the National Centre for the Performing Arts, is returning to the stage for its 13th round of performances from Tuesday to coming Sunday in Beijing.
A traditional Beijing courtyard facade, models of vintage buses, retro refrigerator magnets, enamel mugs, and nostalgic courtyard illustrations transport one back to the capital city of the 1990s.
"Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real" — this inspiring quote from French science-fiction author Jules Verne (1828-1905) greets travelers at Shenzhen Baoan International Airport in Guangdong province, perfectly capturing the spirit of China's "City of Innovation".
A group of professional Chinese and French graphic storytellers toured China during the ninth edition of La Fete des Bulles (the festival of bubbles) earlier in June to highlight the power of illustration in presenting human nature, and expressed a shared vision for graphic novels.
After earning rave reviews in Seoul, an exhibition of ink works by modern Chinese and South Korean artists has arrived in Beijing, at the National Art Museum of China, celebrating the two neighboring countries' shared passion for deepening the cultural meaning of ink art.
Time, light, and space — rarely do these concepts enter the conversation around embroidery. But for artist Diao Juan, they are the foundation of a radical reimagining.
The inaugural volume of the book series, The Digest of Chinese Studies, has recently been published.