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The 2019 U.S.-China Students Gala, featuring student performance groups from universities across the Midwest, was staged at the Logan Center in the University of Chicago on late Saturday with an aim at promoting cultural exchanges between the two countries.
A list of 20 cultural heritage projects in China's information and telecommunication industry has been released by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC).
The Erlitou Relic Museum opened Saturday in Luoyang city in central China's Henan Province, unveiling the history and culture of ancient China's first recorded dynasty of Xia (2070-1600 B.C.).
Egyptian Antiquities Ministry on Saturday unveiled 30 newly-discovered well-preserved ancient coffins with mummies in Upper Egypt's Luxor.
President Xi Jinping pledged on Friday that China will strive to make the 7th Military World Games of the International Military Sports Council an international gathering of peace that encourage military personnel to compete on a fair basis and enable diverse military cultures to develop exchanges and mutual learning.
Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace, opens free to visitors on Friday as the former imperial garden in Beijing marks the 159 anniversary of its looting.
The proportion of scientifically literate citizens in China has increased from 0.2 percent in 1992 to 8.47 percent in 2018.
More than 600 literati and artists provided volunteer services for over 200,000 people across China in 2018, said a statement from the China Literary and Art Volunteers' Association (CLAVA) Thursday.
China's run of success in international photography competitions this year has reached a new high after Bao Yongqing was selected from more than 40,000 entrants to be named as Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2019 at London's Natural History Museum.
Three Chinese-themed films -- "Ne Zha," "White Snake" and "Abominable" -- are among a record 32 features submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 92nd Academy Awards.
A Chinese virtual reality (VR) movie was selected to play in the VR Theater at the 24th Busan International Film Festival in the Republic of Korea (ROK).
A workshop on intangible cultural heritage opened Wednesday in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province.
Seminars, forums and exhibitions will be held to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions, the first national commemoration since the ancient characters were discovered more than a century ago.
The English-language edition of "China in Focus", a ten-volume series written by Chinese scholars on a variety of topics concerning China, was launched at the annual Frankfurt Book Fair on Wednesday.
About 50 American students and their parents had a glimpse of the Chinese culture Tuesday at the 2019 Open Day event in the Chinese Consulate General in Houston, Texas.
Domestic disaster film "The Captain" continued leading the Chinese mainland box office Tuesday, raking in more than 2.5 billion yuan (about 353 million yuan) since its Sept.
"Gemini Man," a science fiction action film directed by Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, is set to hit Chinese mainland theaters on Friday, according to the China Film Distribution and Exhibition Association.
The China Writers Association (CWA) has funded the publication of 80 works and supported 578 projects on ethnic minority literature since 2013.
People rotate a traditional chariot to celebrate the Hadigaun festival on a street of Hadigaun in Kathmandu, Nepal, Oct. 14, 2019.
A senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official called on Chinese writers and artists to create more excellent artworks.
The China Writers Association (CWA) has funded the publication of 80 works and supported 578 projects on ethnic minority literature since 2013.
More than 200 rare plant species from the Beijing Horticultural Expo 2019 have been moved to the Beijing Botanical Garden, including 50 rare plant species imported to the garden for the first time.
Representatives of Buddhist communities from China, the United States and Canada, held a forum at UN headquarters in New York to discuss efforts to build a community of a shared future for mankind.
When Zhao Yong was pursuing his PhD in Yale University in the early 2010s, he was frustrated to learn that some local Chinese restaurants he frequented would no longer be there in the near future due to low profit margins and increasing labor costs.
The third Pingyao International Film Festival unveiled its curtain Thursday night at the 2,700-year-old city of Pingyao, Shanxi Province, with 54 films from around the world to be shown.
Echoing the 70th anniversary of New China, more key sites witnessing recent history have been added than on previous lists.
Hosted by the Chinese Embassy in Finland, a film reception of Master Cheng was held at the International Cultural Centre Caisa in Helsinki. Chinese Ambassador to Finland Chen Li, the film director Mika Kaurismaki, as well as Chinese and Finnish audiences attended the reception and watched the film.
On the newly-published odds list for the 2019 Nobel Prize in literature, Chinese writer Can Xue is ranked third. Despite a tough childhood life,she read a lot of original foreign language books and developing a language ability to communicate directly with foreign friends.
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian author Peter Handke won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 and 2019 respectively, the Swedish Academy announced in Stockholm on Thursday.
China's prestigious National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) will present "Beijing Cantata," a symphony chorus dedicated to the history and cultural essence of Beijing, at a concert featuring newly commissioned works from the NCPA that is set for Friday, Oct. 11.
