Through his six-decade career, Han Meilin-who is well-known as the chief designer of Fuwa, the good-luck mascots for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008-has always turned to Chinese cultural traditions for inspiration. The 80-year-old began ...
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"Please do not stand too close or my pretty face will be too big in your photos," Jia Jia told her "fans" at the 2016 World Robot Conference in Beijing. Jia Jia is a typical oriental beauty with shiny hair, bright skin, a slender figure ...
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A grand concert in Xi'an marked the opening of the 3rd Silk Road International Arts Festival on Sept 7. More than 200 performances by artists from 80 countries and regions will appear at the festival, which runs through Sept 21. Shaanxi ...
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The first edition of Salone del Mobile.Milano Shanghai will be held at the renowned Shanghai Exhibition Centre from November 19 to 21, 2016. More than fifty top Italian brands will display distinguished furniture and interior design ...
Chen Ping, head of the school of Chinese painting at the Central Academy of Fine arts. [Photo provided to China Daily] A painting exhibition featuring leading professors from Chinese arts academies is running at the Yang Mo Tang Art ...
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The first China Culture Center in East Africa was inaugurated in Dar es Salaam, capital of Tanzania on Tuesday. The Chinese ambassador to Tanzania Lv Youqing, former Tanzanian prime minister Mizengo Pinda and more than 100 other guests were ...
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Great Seed produced a documentary after their 5,000 -kilometer journey across Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan provinces to explore the ancient art of papermaking. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] As the country is paying more and more ...
Tags: paper culture, Culture Heritage, intangible cultural heritage
Three People, One Teacher is an exhibition of ink paintings and calligraphic works of three amateur artists. [Photo provided to China Daily] Three People, One Teacher is an exhibition of ink paintings and calligraphic works of three ...
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Visitors wait to get their Chinese names written by using Chinese calligraphy on Sept 5 in Bucharest, Romania. Sep 5 was the last day of the first Embassy Festival in Romania, which was sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of ...
1. Liulichang Street Location: South Xinhua Street, Hepingmenwai, Xuanwu District, Beijing. Liulichang Street of Chinese Culture is a 750 meter long collection of all kinds of Calligraphy, art, antiques and paintings that China has to ...
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Flowers in full bloom at the peak of Emei Mountain. During the May Day Holiday this year, the total number of tourists in Emei Mountain in Sichuan province reached 57300, an increase of 8% compared with last year. The total tickets sold ...
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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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The Confucius Institute in Madrid brought Chinese culture closer to the general public on Saturday on the occasion of the Confucius Institute Day. The Institute organized different activities that took place between 11:00 local time ...
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Crowds are flocking to the Palace Museum to see its priceless treasures, and they're paying tribute to the immortals of Chinese art. But now it's time to sing the praises of those backstage heroes who make it all possible - the restorers ...
Tags: Palace Museum, Cultural Relics, Restoration
Famous folks like Jack Ma attract a lot of cash when their paintings are sold at charity auctions. 'Real' painters sometimes are less than thrilled, Deng Zhangyu reports. E-commerce tycoon Jack Ma shook the nerve of China's art world ...