For many years, seeking to avoid comparison, artist Peng Wei has been unwilling to hold a show jointly with her father, Peng Xiancheng, who gained fame for traditional Chinese water-and-ink paintings decades ago.
Not too many people still weave Miao brocade these days. Not the traditional way Gan Xiaozhi does, with a loom, and hand pick to straighten silk and woolen threads, and then spinning out patterns that tell stories of the Miao ethnic group that doesn't have a written language.
The curtain might have fallen on the golden week of the National Day holiday, but the golden season has just begun.
Once largely ignored in China, the Western holiday Halloween is getting more traction every year, with parties that are spooky, sexy, beery or just good family fun. The Beijing and Shanghai listings below offer something for everyone:
Recent international literary awards have shown the world a different side of China.
A new book has recently been launched as part of China's celebration of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
A new book dealing with China's long history of calligraphy has just hit the market.
An influential photo exhibition in the capital, which focuses on the continent, encourages Asian lensmen to look at cultures, conflicts, society and religions in the region. Deng Zhangyu reports.
More than 30 years ago, Chen Guozhen, 68, an entrepreneur and private collector from Yuyao, in Zhejiang province, started to collect porcelain made at the Yue kiln, an ancient production hub in his hometown.
In his lithography works of the late 1980s, Su Xinping, 55, focused on the life of the Mongolian ethnic group, particularly on the mentality of people living in the grasslands.
A new career late in life has brought a bounty of extraordinary fresh oranges to eager consumers, Liu Zhihua reports.
With a hint of thyme here and a little fugue of garlic there, guest chef Jean-Marc Boyer weaves his South-of-France magic in the shadow of the Forbidden City.
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