A tiny person in a traditional white Chinese gown wanders about in the vast world, drinking tea in an exquisite little courtyard, occasionally dozing off on a fluffy paint brush, and most recently, roaming through a kingdom constructed out of Chinese characters.
The National Ballet of China and the China Animation Comic Game Group will adapt the Chinese version of The Nutcracker into an animated film which is set for release at the end of this year.
Panshan Mountain's cool climate made it a summer resort for Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) emperors and the ideal spot to host a recent event in which over 500 martial artists from 27 schools competed as temperatures in surrounding areas surpassed 40 C in mid-July.
Northeast Asia's food, intangible heritage and folk performances will take center stage in the ethnic Korean autonomous prefecture of Yanbian in China's Jilin province from Sept 3 to 8.
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia - Hundreds of tourists, many of them young Westerners, sat on gray stone steps atop the world's largest Buddhist temple, occasionally checking cellphones or whispering to each other as they waited for daylight.
Chang Shana, the respected scholar on Dunhuang art and traditional crafts, recalls a day in the early 1950s when she accompanied an architect couple, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, to an exhibition at the Palace Museum in Beijing. The display was of copies of the Mogao murals made by researchers at the Dunhuang Academy, including those by her and her father, Chang Shuhong, the academy's late founding director.
To celebrate its 60th birthday, the National Ballet of China will stage Russian choreographer George Balanchine's classic three-act ballet, Jewels, at the Tianqiao Theater in Beijing from Sept 12 to 14.
NANNING - At about 8 pm every night, one hour after his dinner, 45-year-old Xie Zhongguo opens his computer and searches for new items to acquire for his Liu Sanjie cultural museum.
LANZHOU - Summer is the busiest season for staff at the Mogao Grottoes, as more than a third of the annual visitors to the UNESCO World Heritage site arrive during the vacation time.
The Amazon River, which flows through Peru, Colombia and Brazil, has been a permanent source of inspiration for China's Nobel literature prize winner Mo Yan.
NEW YORK - It is not uncommon for non-Chinese heritage people to learn Mandarin nowadays as the world's oldest written language is becoming increasingly popular with the rapid rise of China.
When you initially considered setting up a Hong Kong polo club, did you envisage it would take as long as it has?
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