In 2018, Xu Gang, the director and choreographer of National Ballet of China, went to Minsk, Belarus to watch performances by the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre. One of the biggest theaters in Europe, the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre turned 85 last year.
The rich imagery and colors on the Buddhist murals and statues in Dunhuang have inspired Russian composer Viktor Vasilievich Pleshak. His creation, The Silk Road Suite, premiered at the Shanghai Symphony Hall on April 11.
This year marks the 140th anniversary of Albert Einstein's birth.
A total of 30 thangka paintings from top Nepalese artists are on display in Beijing, as part of efforts to promote cultural exchanges between China and Nepal.
When Liu Shaohui enrolled at the Central Academy of Arts and Design, now the Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University, in 1960, he was nurtured by a star-studded faculty of prominent figures known for bringing Chinese and Western arts closer together in terms of painting and teaching.
April 18, 1979 marked a milestone in the history of Sino-US relations. It was the day that a Chinese vessel called on a US port for the first time in 30 years.
LOS ANGELES - Xian Li, a China-born Hollywood studio executive at SK Global, the company behind last year's hit indie film Crazy Rich Asians, says she is on a mission to build cross-cultural bridges.
As the clock struck midnight on Tuesday, it signaled the start of a carnival for Marvel fans.
Clad in a long red cape and white robe, Chinese singer Li Yugang showed up at a five-star hotel in downtown Beijing recently. With delicate makeup and his short hair neatly combed back, he walked onto the stage, holding a traditional Chinese musical instrument, pipa, a four-stringed, pear-shaped lute.
On his first visit to China last week, Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan was greeted by fans at a Beijing airport with squeals of excitement.
Students and teachers from the United States took a course steeped in culture and history at a Beijing bookstore last month. The 22 students and four teachers from Sidwell Friends School in Washington learned the intricate art of how to make a thread-bound notebook from scratch.
Zhao Yishen is bent over, his eyes staring at the woodblock. Holding a chisel in his right hand, he guides it forward steadily and precisely across the woodblock using his left hand.
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