The 15th China Pingyao International Photography Festival opened Saturday with the theme of "Home and Dream" in the ancient city of Pingyao, North China's Shanxi province, Sept 19, 2015. The festival featured 483 exhibitions, showcasing ...
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The island of Jersey in the English Channel is famous for the rich and creamy milk of its cows, but the autonomous dependency of the British crown hopes to make itself known this month in China through stamps. Six stamps, drawn by artist ...
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In Matt McFetridge's words, his two-and-half year stint in China was the "time of his life". The American student, a native of the Finger Lakes region, New York, became fascinated by the ancient country after meeting his first Chinese ...
In the last 15 years, since the launch of the "Meet in Beijing" Arts Festival, there have been more than ten thousand artists, coming from hundreds of different countries in the world, who have participated by presenting their talents at ...
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Buyers of ancient Chinese art will reappear in Sotheby's salesroom in Hong Kong next month. The last time Sotheby's auctioned classical ink art in the city was some 15 years ago. More than 50 lots of ink paintings and works of ...
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Twenty-four solid gold ornaments dating back almost 2,000 years were returned to China without compensation on Monday, on the grounds that they had been looted from tombs in Gansu province and held by French collectors. Following a similar ...
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According to a press conference held yesterday in Beijing, the 2015 China (Qufu) International Confucius Cultural Festival will open on Sept 26 at the great thinker's hometown Qufu in Jining city, Shandong province. Organized by the ...
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The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Autumn Equinox, the 16th solar term of the year, begins this year on Sept 23 and ends on Oct 7. Autumn Equinox lies at the midpoint of autumn, dividing autumn ...
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When a middle-aged imaginative trader who has just been released from prison and a younger photographer who has a strong empathy for others meet in an empty subway, what do we expect? Probably nothing, some would say. Indeed, we have been ...
On Monday afternoon, fossils of several ancient animals were found at a building site in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu province. Yu and Bai, two workers from Yuzhong county of Gansu province, were digging a ditch. When they ...
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A documentary about Chinese geography and culture that has been two years in the making will be premiered to coincide with President Xi Jinping's state visit to the United States. China From Above, a 100-minute film covering geographic ...
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The 2nd Silk Road International Arts Festival concluded on Tuesday in Xi'an, capital of West China's Shaanxi province. Artists and companies from 62 countries participated in the festival, almost double in number compared with last year. ...
The Xi Jinping Era presents his vision in Chinese and English, and offers glimpses into the president's personal life. As a young boy, Xi Jinping once refused to wear an old pair of shoes with floral prints for fear of being teased by ...
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Little Door Gods , an animation film about Chinese celestial beings, will be screened across the nation on New Year's Day next year. The film by Light Chaser Animation will follow the journey of two door gods in a contemporary Chinese ...
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A report by Beijing Municipal Bureau of Landscape and Forestry shows that 1,094 of the city's historic gardens and parks lack of overall protection and are particularly at risk, even facing permanent disappearance. Although "Regulations ...
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