At a meeting with the venerable Buddhist monk Jingkong, Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad once asked him if there would be peace in the world.
Globally recognized kung fu giant Jackie Chan's latest film Skiptrace has raked in 400 million yuan ($60 million) in its first weekend, to top the box-office charts. But fans are calling it a hodgepodge of cliches. Xu Fan reports.
Cinematic ties between China and Australia are set for a quantum jump as the upcoming China Australia Film Festival will see the launch of a big-budget coproduction by the two countries.
Over 10 years ago, Shandong Acrobatic Troupe, one of China's best, was in trouble. Like many traditional art forms of China, acrobatics faced losing audiences, especially the younger generation.
Legends say that a Chinese princess secretly took the silk-making technology out of the country to her husband, the king of ancient Khotan.
The Chinese version of the drama War Horse will return to Beijing from Friday to Aug 14.
Beyonce on Tuesday led nominations for the MTV Video Music Awards as she basked in acclaim for her film-album Lemonade.
Cartoonist Tsai Chih-chung's decadeslong work has been inspired by ancient Chinese philosophy and history, as his biography reveals. Wang Kaihao reports.
Harry Potter is casting a spell, again, over the publishing industry.
Since the days of Genghis Khan, competitors have gathered each summer to show off their skills in horseback riding, archery and wrestling. Xing Yi and Yuan Hui explore the scene in Hohhot.
Some 800 years ago, Genghis Khan united most of the Mongolian tribes with his then invincible cavalry.
British scribe Gideon Rachman writes a new book to tell the West about the shift in the balance of power, Andrew Moody reports.
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