Photographer Ma Wenxiao has been recording Beijing's metamorphosis from the sky for the past 18 years, rediscovering the city's classical appeal accumulated over 3,000 years of history while documenting the capital as it grows bigger, higher and greener.
A photographer from Taiwan, Zhuang Ling, received a lifetime achievement award at the 19th Pingyao International Photography Festival on Sept 21.
When she was invited to perform in China this March, Edita Gruberova asked her agent: "Why now?"
To celebrate its ninth birthday, the Beijing 9 Contemporary Dance Theater will stage its latest original composition, entitled Nine Knots, on Sunday and Monday.
A group of young people labored in the countryside in Quzhou county, North China's Hebei province, planting grapes. But when they recorded data about their growth, they were soon disappointed when they found some of the grapes were affected by a downy mildew, before they enjoyed the final harvest of the remaining fruit.
In 1998, when Li Bo'an died at age 54, he was close to completing the 10th and final painting of an ambitious series of landscapes, depicting both the breathtaking views of western China and the dynamic lives of ethnic Tibetans.
Melodious music from the stage pleased the audience at a recent event. But it was hard to tell which was more remarkable - the music or the performer.
On a grassy hillside where, here and there, a flock of sheep and cows are grazing, 30 or so primary school students gather in a circle around actor Wang Luoyong, following his directions to mimic the traits of an eagle, a rooster, a wolf and other animals.
For Jiang Yueling, a sophomore literature major at Beijing Normal University, the popular TV series A Little Reunion is reminiscent of the tense period in her life spent preparing for the gaokao, or the national college entrance examinations.
Award-winning Norwegian journalist and writer Asne Seierstad is no stranger to China. Now on her third trip, she meets Chinese book lovers with the Chinese version of her latest work, Two Sisters. Her first trip in 1997 introduced her to a country undergoing sweeping changes.
NEW DELHI - The English and Hindi versions of China's renowned linguist, historian and author Ji Xianlin's biography, titled Ji Xianlin: A Critical Biography, was launched on Sept 21 at New Delhibased Jawaharlal Nehru University.
GUANGZHOU - Hong Kong-born Annie Leung still remembers her first visit to the remote mountains of Southwest China's Guizhou province in 2017, and the memories of the wild leeks covering the rolling hills remain fresh in her mind.
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