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.
The upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year, which arrives on Friday, is a busy season for wedding ceremonies. On Friday and Saturday evening, a Washington, DC, audience of some 2,000 people observed probably the grandest wedding ceremony they had ever seen.
A team of select literary professionals has been invited to refresh China's cultural history by contributing to a new series of biographies.
Some fathers are in the delivery room when their children are born and some pace outside, but actress Anjelica Huston's dad learned of his daughter's birth by telegram in the Belgian Congo where he was filming The African Queen.
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