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New museum in Hainan to offer visual feast in art show

An exhibition featuring works by 94 artists from 24 countries will open on May 18 at the Ocean Flower Island Museum in Danzhou, Hainan province, to offer tourists a visual feast.The show, titled The T

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Palace Museum to open ceramics gallery

After about two years' preparation, the Palace Museum's new ceramics gallery is to open to the public in Beijing on Saturday.The new gallery, in the Hall of Martial Valor (Wuying Dian), on the

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Digitization helps to build online library of historical tomes

For the 26th World Book and Copyright Day last week, 10 Chinese libraries jointly released the digitized editions of over 1,700 volumes of ancient Chinese books.This is the fourth expansion of the nat

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Movement of ideas

The National Ballet of China will stage seven new dance pieces by young dancers-choreographers. Dancers of the National Ballet of China rehearse new works that will be staged at Beijing's Tianqi

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New TV show spotlights key part of CPC's history

To celebrate the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, a new TV series on the undercover communication line during revolutionary era in the 1930s will hit screen on A

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A moving performance

Work by composer Zhao Jiping set to feature on NCPA Orchestra's first nationwide tour.The China NCPA Orchestra, the resident orchestra of the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, wi

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A new chapter begins

It seems like a fleeting moment of beauty. Twenty years ago, artist Leng Bingchuan featured in a copy of a magazine called Wei Mei (meaning "only beauty"). The magazine, published by Shandong Picto

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Budget to support TCM use to double

China plans to double its investment in traditional Chinese medicine in the next five years compared with the previous five-year plan period, bolstering many infrastructure projects, authorities said

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Undercover work brought to life through drama

National security officers usually work undercover and keep a low profile, but a television drama has thrusted them into the limelight, highlighting their commitment to the country's safety.The fi

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Film centered on Japanese 'war orphans' opens Friday

In the final days of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1931-45), thousands of children left by fleeing Japanese families were adopted by locals in northeastern China. With China and J

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Keeping the show on the road

Xi'an Symphony Orchestra holds a concert on the west peak of Huashan Mountain in Shaanxi province, on July 4, 2020. The concert, titled XSO Meets Huashan Mountain Summit Clouds Rhapsody, which st

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Behind closed doors

All is never as it seems behind the door across the street, a situation many films and novels, even William Shakespeare's works, have touched upon. What may, from the outside, seem like a perfect s

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Where creativity speaks the loudest

Creations by hearing-impaired people who work at Shanghai studio, LFORU, founded by Cai Zhengjun. [Photo provided to China Daily] While wearing a mask in this new norm might pose just a slight

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In step with our time

Wang Yuanyuan, founder and director of Beijing Dance Theater. [Photo by Yin Chao/China Daily] Old stories, with their sense of place and time, keep on captivating and inspiring dancer-choreogra

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The sounds of eastern essence

Pipa virtuoso Wu Man has made a new album with shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) performer Kojiro Umezaki. The album, titled Flow, was released on Feb 19.Both musicians are members of the Silk Road E

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Red-themed performances show colorful allure

Twelve theater shows featuring the Chinese revolution will be presented from February to April in celebration of the centennial of the founding of the Communist Party of China.Hosted by the organizing

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Quartet strikes a note for music brilliance

The Magnolia Quartet, a chamber group featuring four women musicians from the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, made its debut on Jan 29. Beethoven's String Quartet No 8 in E Minor was performed at the