"In Chinese, wenhua means culture. The word is made up of two characters. Wen stands for history and hua refers to the process of change," says Guo Aihe, a 53-year old ceramist and curator of the Luoyang Sancai Art Museum.
The Palace Museum in Beijing has mounted several blockbuster exhibitions of classical Chinese paintings and calligraphy over the past two years. Thanks to successful publicity campaigns, word about these shows went viral on social media, making it the most effective means for drawing visitors.
The Huaiyang dish Wensi Tofu gained a sharp reputation due to the intricate knife skills it requires thanks to A Bite of China, a popular documentary series about Chinese food.
Click, click, click. As I walked into the grand ballroom of an upscale hotel in downtown Beijing, three women at the entrance frantically tapped the counters in their hands.
Every restaurant is remembered by its signature dish, while the rice is always forgotten.
Zhang Qianxi waited by a swimming pool at Tianjin University on a cold winter afternoon last year. At a certain point when the light reflected perfectly on the water, he clicked the shutter.
Wang Xi gave himself the English name Elvis to pay homage to his music idol, Elvis Presley.
One desk and one folded fan was all that consisted for the props used by pingshu (storytelling) master Tian Lianyuan to bring to life a battlefield story from Yang Jia Jiang (Generals of the Yang Family), an influential novel based on the titular legendary family in the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) era.
Huayi Brothers Media Corp, a major factor in the rise of some of China's most popular film celebrities like director Feng Xiaogang and actress Li Bingbing, recently announced plans to expand its influence among television viewers.
NEW YORK - Steven Spielberg's newspaper drama The Post was named the year's best film by the National Board of Review, which also lavished its top acting honors on the film's stars, Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks.
At a global media event hosted this week by China Global Television Network and China Central Television News Content in South China's Hainan province, delegates from media outlets at home and abroad discussed topics such as the survival of conventional media in the era of social media, when practically anyone can "break news" online.
Japanese filmmaker Shunji Iwai still clearly remembers an afternoon when he was in second grade.
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