Under a cloudless blue sky that re-emerged after the first snow of 2014 fell on the sacred city of Lhasa, some 1,500 local residents joined actor Chen Kun in an urban journey designed to help participants purify their minds.
A new national foundation launched with money from the central government hopes to make more money available to more artists around the country - and perhaps inspire local foundations as well, Han Bingbin reports.
When the ink characters kept shrinking after the calligrapher drew them on an oil canvas, the audience at the Chambers Fine Art gallery in New York oohed and aahed at the effect as their cameras fired away. On the side, a video camera was recording the performance to complete the artwork.
In a room occupying half a floor of a building, rows of artists are busy working on their computers painting, designing and coloring 3-D cartoon images of various frogs. The scene here is no different from animation studios flourishing in dozens of China's animation and games industry zones where rooms are so tightly packed with animators that it makes breathing a little difficult.
After two centuries standing at the Louvre, Diana de Gabies leaves France for the first time and greets viewers at a Chinese museum, as a warm-up to celebrate the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries five decades ago.
Music therapy is gaining wider acceptance in China, as mentally challenged youngsters are exposed to classical music and learn to play instruments in programs that help them find harmony with the outside world, Chen Nan discovers.
When he was named the 2013 CCTV Technology Innovation Person of the Year for his distinguished contribution to research on the quantum computer, Guo Guangcan felt rather surprised.
They practice medicine the way their ancestors have always done, with methods that have steadfastly withstood the test of time and still command a strong following. Wang Kaihao tells us more from Tongliao in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
The practitioners of traditional Mongolian medicine want more people to know about their healers' heritage, and they want to take it abroad.
When the two friends of some 50 years saw each other for the last time, at the older woman's deathbed, they spoke about a seven-string plucked instrument, guqin.
Chinese performers presented a Spring Festival show on Jan 25 in Vientiane, hosted by Yunnan TV and Laotian National Television to celebrate the Lunar New Year with a Laotian audience, as part of Yunnan's effort to promote cultural exchanges with Southeast Asian neighbors.
While Dongfanghong Food Factory's 12 workers perform the same tasks hundreds of times a day, they must relearn how to follow these procedures nearly every time they perform them.
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