In late June, the 2024 Aranya Theater Festival in Qinghuangdao, Hebei province, witnessed director Nie Jingzhu's groundbreaking production, Shakespeare's Garden, receiving resounding praise.
Over 40 foreign diplomats in China embarked on an immersive travel experience, discovering a variety of new cultural and tourism hot spots in the capital city, during June 28-30.
A museum to give a review of the art education in the country is due to be constructed at the end of the year, at the campus of Beijing Normal University in Zhuhai, a costal city of Guangdong province.
Baotou, in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, is renowned for rich natural resources and a booming base of iron and steel production. Now, it is to explore its potential in the areas of arts, culture and heritage.
During the 1930s, against the backdrop of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45), young revolutionaries in Shanghai were busy creating different forms of art, such as songs, dramas and movies, out of their fervent desire to encourage people to fight for the nation.
South Korean artist Yunchul Kim's exhibition in Beijing, Elliptical Dipole: Visceral Particles and Sorcerous Flows, ushers people into a mysterious, captivating and sometimes confusing world.
The theater lights had yet to dim when a male dancer wearing traditional Chinese clothes from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) appeared among the audience, bowing respectfully and immersing them in the era.
With footprints spanning different continents, dancer, choreographer and the artistic director of Hong Kong's City Contemporary Dance Company Yuri Ng has had a rich multicultural life and an international career.
In 1018, a princess of China's Liao Dynasty (916-1125) died at the tender age of 18 and was laid to rest beside her husband, almost 20 years her senior, who died the previous year, barely two years into their marriage.
"The princess and her consort were dressed and equipped to mount their steeds and ride off across the steppes of their fiefdom," writes Linda Cooke Johnson, a professor of history at Michigan State University in the United States, in her book on gender and identity of women from Liao and Jin, two Chinese dynasties founded by nomadic people. Here, Johnson discusses the final resting place for a princess — known as the Princess of the State of Chen — of China's Liao Dynasty (916-1125) and how she was interred with her husband by her side and with almost everything needed for a pastoral life.
In the sprawling vineyards of the country's premier wine region, the Ningxia Hui autonomous region in Northwest China, the agricultural work of harvesting grapes can be a high-stakes race against the clock.
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