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Dance drama debuts with banquet of Beijing life

Dancer-choreographer Liu Yan staged her debut directorial dance drama Jing Yan on June 18 at the Century Theater in Beijing.With jing referring to Beijing and yan banquet, the dance drama presented re

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Noted translator Xu Yuanchong dies at 100

Chinese noted translator Xu Yuanchong. [Photo by Zhu Bochen/China.org.cn] Xu Yuanchong, a noted translator in China and a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication of Peking Univ

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Classic book on Song capital gets new life with republication

Dongjing Menghua Lu (Prosperous Record of Song Dynasty (960-1279) Capital Dongjing), a book first released nearly 1,000 years ago, was republished in May with explanatory notes.Written in 1147 by Meng

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Festival for young film talent to spotlight women's voices

The 15th edition of the FIRST International Film Festival, China's major platform nurturing young talent in the film industry, will be held in Xining, capital of Qinghai province, from July 25 to

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National Museum receives donation of late artist's works

The National Museum of China received a donation of more than 100 works by late artist Wu Shi from his family on Friday. A catalog of Wu's body of works compiled by the National Museum was also pu

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Xinjiang holds singing competition to celebrate CPC centenary

A singing competition was held by the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region's department of culture and tourism on May 25 to raise the curtain on a series of activities celebrating the 100th anniversar

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Exhibition highlights role of overseas Chinese in Party's history

Calligraphy work of Sun Yat-sen dedicated to one of the main Chinese people's associations in South Africa during the 1910s. [Photo by Fang Aiqing/China Daily] The Overseas Chinese History Muse

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New epic to retell CPC's first National Congress

Two years after the 2019 revolutionary film The Bugle from Gutian, actor Wang Renjun will again play Mao Zedong -- the founding father of People's Republic of China -- in the upcoming epic 1921.Se

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A classic Shakespearean play with a Tibetan twist

A new production of Hamlet, which features 22 students from a Tibetan class at the Shanghai Theater Academy, takes to the stage of Shangxi Theater in Shanghai. [Photo by Gao Erqiang/chinadaily.co

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Rare thangkas on show in Shanghai

A total of 80 pieces of thangka, a traditional Tibetan scroll painting which documents the knowledge and practices of Tibetan medicine, are being showcased in an exhibition in Shanghai's Yu Garden

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Documentary's sneak viewings play to a packed house

Seats were fully booked weeks before The Dakini Code: Lotus-Born Master and the Event Horizon's sneak previews ran at the Auspicious Thanka Gallery in Beijing's 798 Art Zone from April 25-26.S

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TV series pays tribute to country's role model

As a tribute to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of Communist Party of China, the 35-episode television series Wang Jinxi the 'Iron Man' began production on April 25.Born in a poor p

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Young woman aspires to invigorate Miao batik

[Photo/Xinhua] Xinying Wang, 21, is a native of Danzhai county, Southwest China's Guizhou province. She started learning batik since 6 years old. At 19, she was appointed as the lineage holder

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Midi Music Festival to be held in 3 cities during holiday

As a major outdoor music festival launched over two decades ago, Midi Music Festival will be held at three Chinese cities during the upcoming May Day holiday.From May 1 to May 4, over 50 Chinese bands

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New film tells stories of less-affluent China

Japanese film director Ryo Takeuchi's latest documentary, Zoujin Daliangshan, which was shot last year, is about to meet Chinese audiences later this month.A file photo of Daliangshan in Sichuan p

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A glimpse of guqin making in Guizhou

Wang Bing, an inheritor of the guqin (Chinese zither) making technique, creates guqin in a studio in Zunyi city, Guizhou province, April 7, 2021. The guqin, a seven-stringed plucked instrument, ha

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Sculptures create deep resonance

Xiao Li, a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and a sculptor in his own right, is noted for producing wood and stone works that convey intrinsic energy and the beauty of Chinese philosop