Eight members of the Zhou Family Band are currently on a one-month tour of the United States. The tour, which features 17 shows, began on Sept 18 at the Global Roots Festival in Minneapolis. American audiences will get a rare chance to hear centuries-old Chinese wind and percussion instruments, which the family has been performing for over seven generations.
Wang Jiajun, 30, is a rich merchant in the Middle East. Sometimes he's a general, commanding legions of men.
More than 70 exhibitors from both home and abroad recently joined the fourth annual Dice Con Board Game Convention in Beijing. There, visitors were able to try out a range of board games at tables before deciding whether to buy them. Other activities included the launch of new games.
Three years ago, 30-year-old American Sylvia Kang noticed her female friends were worried by the question of when to have a child.
The hollow thud of heavy wooden doors echoed throughout the lecture hall as dozens of eyes turned to meet Alice Hou's. She wondered if she'd walked into the wrong room.
QINGDAO - Stuffed toys, guitars, zithers, swimming goggles, hometown delicacies and books - with these items packed in their luggage, China's "millennial babies" yearn for a colorful college life.
ISMAILIA, Egypt - Hassan Ragab, the director of the Confucius Institute at the Suez Canal University in Egypt, has hailed the Chinese language institute for enhancing mutual understanding and cooperation between Chinese and Egyptian people.
ULAN BATOR - China's aid is boosting the development of Mongolia's education system, says Mongolia's Education Minister Tsedenbal Tsogzolmaa.
WASHINGTON - American and Chinese scientists have discovered two new fatty acids in vegetable oils, potentially to be developed as high-quality lubricants.
While a single tragedy in the first century BC may seem trivial in the context of human's long maritime history, a stroke-of-luck discovery two millennia later brought the event to renewed prominence.
Early works of one of the 20th century's most influential artists, Pablo Picasso, are currently on display at YUELY Art Museum in Jiashan county, Zhejiang province, as part of an exhibition which runs through Nov 30.
Li Dawei is putting the final touches on his 10-meter-long painting - an artistic representation of an old cobbled street in Guyan Huaxiang.
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