Matteo Ricci arrived in Beijing with other Italian missionaries in the late 16th century.
After making the challenging switch from boxing ring to catwalk, Japanese fashion designer and former boxer Arashi Yanagawa talked about rolling with the punches during Men's Fashion Week in London.
Jackie Chan is taking his adventures to a new level. In his latest movie - in which he drives a car carrying a lion in the back seat - the big cat is not computer-generated. The very real predator is owned by Dubai's royal family.
Hollywood's young-adult thriller Nerve does not have Chinese stars or scenes shot in China but it is making waves in China - the world's largest internet market, where half the population is online - thanks to its internet celebrities.
The perky, pastel-hued jazz musical La La Land quick-stepped into an awards-season lead on Tuesday, gaining 11 nominations for the British Academy Film Awards, the UK equivalent of the Oscars.
Chinese singer-songwriter Li Yuchun released her eighth studio album, Growing Wild, in 2016. Instead of a CD including a dozen new songs, Li broke with tradition by separating the new album into four EPs.
Europe's oldest Chinatown is to stage its biggest-ever Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations centering around the myth of a bird trying to fill in the ocean, organizers announced Monday. Liverpool's Chinatown will celebrate the Lunar New Year, which falls on Jan 28, with spectacular projections telling the story of Jingwei and the Ocean.
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has just concluded its first tour in China, from late December in Guangzhou, Changsha, Shanghai to Beijing on Jan 5. The orchestra, which is composed of around 85musicians, performed Elgar's Enigma Variations as well as music of Tchaikovsky, Pablo de Sarasate and Dvorak under the baton of conductor Vassily Sinaisky.
The sun has barely stretched above the horizon on a late-December morning as a dozen students gather around yoga mats stretched across the floor of a Beijing university's gymnasium.
Another wave of fresh graduates will finish their college life and step into society as a new year is unfolding.
The College English Tests, which are known as CET 4 and CET 6, will not be canceled but could morph into a new testing and rating system, according to a professor involved in the process.
For Chen Zihong, winning a silver medal at the Dongrun-Yau Science Award in 2015 was a special experience. Chen, a native of Shanghai, developed an interest in mathematics as a child. He taught himself high school mathematics when he was in junior middle school, and finished college mathematics courses when he was in high school.
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