China has begun to publish national survey findings of the population and property loss during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45).
Tory Burch's new book is all about color, a compilation of the influences that inspire her, from people to music to art to culture to travel to home design.
Huihan Lie, a 36-year-old Dutch citizen, never expected he would someday make a profession out of helping fellow overseas Chinese find their roots through jiapu or "ancestry book", when he first visited China in 2004.
The first sound one hears in the morning after waking up at a traditional Chinese college in Shengshuiyu township is the loudspeaker broadcast of Di Zi Gui. The book, written in 17th century and based on the teachings of Confucius, emphasises the basic requisites for being a good person and guidelines for living in harmony with others.
Fashion designer Emily Xiaodan Yu, who went to learn and earn in New York more than a decade ago, has unveiled her latest book: On and Beyond, A View on Fashion by a New York Designer.
For music fans, many of whom want to survive crowded and often muddy outdoor concerts with a dash of style, a good pair of boots becomes necessary.
More than 100 paintings by Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Pan Tianshou, Li Kuchan, Li Keran, Wu Zuguang, Xu Linlu and Pierre-Auguste Renoir were assembled to display at Beijing Exhibition Center which ended on Sunday. For the first time, descendants of these master painters gathered at the same site to talk about how their families' art legacies have been passed down.
Blue figures swim around walls, dancers prance in a circle and flowers sprout on a huge canvas in an exhibition of the cut-out works of French artist Henri Matisse that opened on Sunday.
From the earliest etchings on cave walls to guerilla art painted on walls inside subway stations, murals have developed right along with human culture for thousands of years. The just-ended third National Mural Exhibition in Beijing, held once every five years, offered a glimpse into the current development of an art form that dates back to the Stone Age.
Late in the afternoon, the mellow strains of a viola drift from conductor Lyu Jia's office at the National Center for the Performing Arts. He is coaching a musician of the NCPA Orchestra, just after a three-hour rehearsal for that evening's opera concert Guglielmo Tell.
Before Chu Yi-bing led his cello ensemble in a concert on a recent rainy night in Beijing to celebrate the emsemble's 10th anniversary, he presented a bowl of soup to each member of the audience first.
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