On a sleepless night in early spring of 2013, standing on the balcony of his New York apartment, choreographer Cheng Tsung-lung saw the sky begin to fill with a magical blue hue. For some 20 minutes, the sun was still below the horizon but the sky started to glow.
Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra will perform works by some of the most creative minds in contemporary Chinese music at the Forbidden City Concert Hall on Wednesday as part of the ongoing Beijing Music Festival.
This year's weeklong National Day holiday became international vacation time for a record number of Chinese mainlanders.
After a pleasant trip to a nature reserve in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, Meng Xuejing started driving back to Beijing on Monday morning, thinking about her supper at home.
China's forestry tourism is seeing rapid growth and there is huge potential in the future, a senior forestry official said on Saturday. The value of such tourism was 650 billion yuan ($103 billion) in 2014, accounting for one-fifth of the country's tourism revenue, says Zhang Yongli, deputy head of the State Forestry Administration.
Peter Frankopan believes we have all been looking at history in the wrong way.
When President Xi Jinping was on his first state visit to the United States, in late September, a new book on China's relations with that country, intended to give English-speaking readers Chinese perspectives on the subject, was released in Beijing.
Much material is available on the horrors the common people of Shanghai faced since the Japanese military occupied the entire city on Dec 8, 1941, following the outbreak of the Pacific War. Many Chinese have learned of the pain the occupation inflected on their previous generations through literature, movies, TV series, memoirs and textbooks.
From the luxurious bedrooms of the mothers of kings to personal worship areas filled with Buddha statures, the Palace Museum is showing us a different side of imperial China. Deng Zhangyu reports.
It's around 8 pm. The streets are quiet. For most of Heze, a city in East China's Shandong province, which has a population of around 8 million and is known as the main center for the cultivation of the national flower peony, it is the end of another day.
Famed 'fragrant' pork, a Tibetan-style delicacy, delivers an authentic taste of Shangri-La, Xu Junqian discovers at a high-altitude tasting.
As autumn temperatures drop, the Chinese like to pamper themselves with hotpot to escape the chill.
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