Researchers are piecing together the incredible history of an ancient Buddhist canon rescued from Japanese invaders. Wang Kaihao reports.
They grew up with the internet, studied fine arts abroad and present at exhibitions around the world - including their motherland, where contemporary art and the market have both prospered.
This weekend, Beijing Modern Dance Company will present a show on animals of the Chinese zodiac. Chen Nan reports.
When the dance drama Kubuqi, which is named after a large desert in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, was staged at the Tianqiao Performing Arts Center in Beijing on Thursday, the audience was introduced to a lesser-known fable of the Mongolian ethnic group through folk music.
Two young women of the Miao ethnic group, clad in traditional dresses, sing on a boat that passes under an arched bridge over the Qingshui River in Southwest China's Guizhou province, raising the curtain for an international festival in the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture.
A young woman looks deep into her lover's eyes as they scrunch together in a narrow bed, sharing one blanket, in a sleeping carriage of a train heading from Guangzhou to Chengdu.
BELGRADE - An Afghan boy dubbed "little Picasso" exhibited his paintings and photographs in Belgrade on Wednesday, hoping to raise money for a Serbian child's post-cancer therapy.
CAIRO - Egyptian artists are learning China's ceramic techniques at a workshop in Cairo.
The recent military parade and celebration of the 90th anniversary of the People's Liberation Army has boosted interest in "red tourism".
Contracts to develop a total of nine tourism projects worth 6 billion yuan ($893 million) in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province, were announced at a tourism promotion conference in Beijing on Aug 4.
Walking through central Bruges is like a romantic journey into the past.
Long before the invention of the qipao, or the cheongsam, there was a similar-looking type of clothing that most Chinese wore starting from as early as the 26th century BC.
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