When President Xi Jinping talked with US President Donald Trump at the Palace Museum, or Forbidden City, in Beijing on Nov 8, Xi highlighted that "China has 3,000 years of history using written characters" to his visiting US counterpart.
How did aristocrats in fifth-century northern China treat guests at an outdoor feast?
NEW YORK - A Basquiat masterpiece, bought by a Japanese billionaire for a record $110.5 million, will make its museum debut this month, going on display in the artist's home borough of Brooklyn.
After the three-episode TV documentary Masters in the Forbidden City went on air in 2016, Wang Jin, an antique clock restorer at the Palace Museum in Beijing, became a celebrity.
DHAKA - A site in Bangladesh bearing unique architectural features has been jointly unearthed by a team of archaeologists from Bangladesh and China, unlocking both cultural and tourism potential.
The National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing will stage Thais as its first opera of the year.
CASABLANCA, Morocco - "Teaching young people to dream again" is the vision of a Moroccan cultural center in a run-down district of Casablanca, once home to a group of suicide bombers who killed 33 people in 2003.
LONDON - The 50th anniversary of the world-famous Beatles traveling to Rishikesh in India is to be marked with a new exhibition in their home city of Liverpool.
More flights, relaxed visa policies and promotional events are bringing up the number of Chinese visitors heading Down Under.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Ethiopia has always held me in thrall.
The Christmas and New Year periods are now very popular points on winter tourism calendar in China, with the number of travelers up by more than 150 percent as compared with the same period last year, according to Lvmama, a popular online tourist service platform.
NEW YORK - From Malta to Minneapolis, here's a look at some destinations around the world that will be making news in 2018. They include designated culture capitals, places hosting sporting events and even a couple of cities San Antonio, Texas, and New Orleans celebrating their 300th birthdays.
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