The "Nanhai No 2" of China National Offshore Oil Corporation is a semi-submersible drilling platform. It has been in operation for 41 years since 1978. A total of 262 wells have been drilled by it and the total footage recorded by it is over 880,000 meters.
Wang Ge sat for a whole afternoon at a graveyard along the railway between Qinghai and Tibet. He ultimately decided to tell the stories of the people who died during the construction of this vital lifeline.
For the first time in the history of Peking Opera, four women recently performed a piece in the China National Peking Opera Company production, Stories of the Red Army.
CANBERRA - Eight life-size Terracotta Warriors from China are among the works shown as part of a rare exhibition being hosted by the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.
The dinner table can serve as a platform for more Chinese to better understand Africa, a recent culinary event in Beijing sought to show.
Two opera singers perform the aria Nessun Dorma from the corner of a room that's reminiscent of an opera house. Guests tuck into cavatelli and carnaroli rice while they listen intently.
From the traditional bamboo flute of Japan and the drums of South Asia to the domra from Russia, the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra presented a world music concert featuring more than 60 musical instruments from around the world at the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations on May 18.
The realms of art and science are often considered polar opposites, but the boundaries between them are torn down whenever Shanghai artist Wang Xuyuan wields his brush.
Director Yu Xin recalls the first time she heard shakuhachi music when she was driving across a viaduct in Beijing three years ago. She was playing the album Sorae by Japanese musician Kinohachi, who began learning the instrument during childhood.
It is an old story, more than 4.5 billion years old.
Over the past three decades, Wu Weishan, 57, director of the National Art Museum of China and an eminent sculptor in his own right, has been profiling the soul of society by producing sculptures of people considered to be the greatest minds in Chinese history.
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