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Sunken Heroes
Jan 3, 2017Archaeologists unveil the tragic story of a historic sea battle more than a century ago as they excavate an ironclad warship, Wang Kaihao reports. An iconic Chinese warship and the 245 officers-soldiers and crewmen who have been keeping a ...
Tags: Archaeologists, Sunken Heroes
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The First ICH Experience Center Opens in Beijing
Dec 12, 2016China's first intangible cultural heritage O2O interactive experience center opened in the Qianmen area in Beijing on Saturday. The two-level center occupies nearly 2,000 square meters and combines an ICH showcase, visitor experience and ...
Tags: cultural heritage, ICH showcase
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More Funds to Protect Heritage in Private Hands
Apr 5, 2016More funds will be mobilized to protect endangered heritage that is currently outside government domain, according to a top official of the Culture Ministry. The move comes in the wake of related national guidelines released by the State ...
Tags: Private Hands, Funds
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Shanghai 'Big World' Stage Entertainment Landmark Set to Reopen Next Year After Decade-Long Closure
Dec 18, 2015[Photo/Shanghai Daily] Shanghai's once most popular stage entertainment landmark, the Shanghai Dashijie, in Huangpu District will be reopened late next year to continue to display the city's cultural heritages after being closed for ...
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Chinese Culture Talk in Indonesia Strikes a Chord
Dec 18, 2015On Dec 10, Chinese musician couple Wang Jianxin and Li Fengyun gave a lecture to 600 students and teachers at Sekolah Harapan Bangsa School in Indonesia. [Photo by Liu Fang / Chinaculture.org] A series of lectures on Chinese classical ...
Tags: Culture Talk, ancient instruments
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Saving A Tibetan Tradition
Dec 18, 2015Trinley (right) performs at the Norbulingka Park in Lhasa during the Shoton Festival.[Photo provided to China Daily] Trinley, 76, narrates Buddhist folktales depicted in the Thangka paintings using a wooden stick. Usually, it takes hours, ...
Tags: Trinley, ancient art, Tibetan Tradition
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China Pinpoints Major Economic Tasks for 2016
Dec 17, 2015The Communist Party of China (CPC) on Monday unveiled its major economic tasks for 2016, the first year of the country's 13th Five-year Plan. To reduce housing inventories, more migrant rural workers should be issued with urban-residency ...
Tags: Economic Tasks, economic development, social development
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Summit Explores Ways to Preserve Traditional Villages
Dec 16, 2015Qiandongnan's Xijiang village, the country's largest ethnic Miao community. WANG KAIHAO/CHINA DAILY It is like taking a walk back in time. Women from the Dong ethnic group in the 800-year-old Huanggang village are dyeing shiny traditional ...
Tags: Traditional Villages, Preserve
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Workshops Bring Earthy Mongolian Arts to Life
Dec 16, 2015Unir sings while playing the morin khuur, or horse-head fiddle, during a performance. [Photo provided to China Daily] As his fingers run over the strings, we hear a thunderstorm and rain. When he whistles, you hear the wind. Horses run ...
Tags: morin khuur, Mongolian instrument
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Paper Culture Heritage Highlighted in Beijing
Dec 16, 2015Great 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
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Museum of Marquis Haihun's Tombs to Be Built in Jiangxi
Dec 15, 2015A bronze sword. [Photo/People's Daily Online] The Jiangxi provincial government has decided to build a large Museum of Royal Tombs of the Marquis of Haihun State of the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-24AD) , with the aim of creating a world ...
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Talk on Ancient Chinese Instrument Held in Indonesia
Dec 11, 2015Professor Wang Jianxin and Lin Fengyun give a performance together with Indonesian artists. [Photo by Liu Fang / Chinaculture.org] A lecture on Chinese ethnic instruments was held at Habibie & Ainun Library in Djakarta, Indonesia this ...
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Keeper of The Past
Dec 2, 2015The Palace Museum in Beijing is one of the country's first UNESCO World Heritage sites. [Photo by Zhuo Ensen/China Daily] China celebrates UNESCO founding with pledge to protect its own sites and do more, Wang Kaihao reports. Preservers ...
Tags: Mogao Caves, Palace Museum
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Replicas of Eight Caves in Mogao Grottoes on Exhibition in Shanghai
Dec 2, 2015Replicas of "Cave 220" in China's Mogao Grottoes are on display at the Shanghai Himalayas Museum in Shanghai starting from November 29, 2015. [Photo/xinmin.cn] Replicas of eight caves in China's Mogao Grottoes have gone on show in ...
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Century-Old Chinese Railway Station Applies for World Heritage
Nov 26, 2015[File photo/Hebei Daily] A century-old railway station in North China's Zhangjiakou has applied to become a world cultural heritage, the city government said in a statement on Wednesday. Zhangjiakou North Railway Station, the ending ...
