Chinese TV drama The Awakening Age, which celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), has spurred a trend of visiting related tourism spots, along with sales of cultural products connected to the drama.
The members of a wandering wild elephant herd have become social media stars in China and around the world since they left their home in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Southwest China's Yunnan Province.
Prices in Beijing cinemas for Fast and Furious 9 (F9) IMAX "golden seats" have triggered a discussion about a trend of Chinese cinemas increasing ticket prices for different seat locations, and most netizens seem to be unhappy about it.
The Great Wall might gain the honor of being a demonstration case for protection and conservation from UNESCO at the 44th session of the World Heritage Committee in July, Chinese officials announced on Tuesday.
There have been no new episodes in China's first documentary themed on Chinese women's fertility problems, Impressive Egg's Birth, since mid May, and netizens suspect it might be connected to the implementation of the third-child policy.
Over 4,900 events will be held across China to celebrate 2021's Cultural and Natural Heritage Day, China's National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA) announced on Thursday.
For the first time, Hollywood has turned its attention to the Chinese comic book market for inspiration.
Thirteen days after premiering in the Chinese mainland, Fast & Furious 9 (F9) finally beat Godzilla vs. Kong on Wednesday to become the highest-grossing Hollywood film in China since the outbreak of COVID-19.
A digital restoration project for part of the Great Wall built in China's Han Dynasty (206BC-AD220) and Ming Dynasty (1,368-1,644) is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2021, making it the first part of the Great Wall to ...
Netizens have called for a boycott of a 3D cartoon series over “adult” elements, and have said China needs an animation classification system.
A civilization from millennia ago is waking up in Southwest China's Sichuan Province. Chinese archaeologists have excavated a number of 3,000-year-old relics at the Sanxingdui Ruins site, including an eye-shaped bronze work, a bronze figurine in a sleeping position and ...
Deemed one of China's most famous archaeological discoveries in the world, the Sanxingdui Ruins site in Southwest China's Sichuan Province on Friday revealed a newly unearthed artifact: a 3,000-year-old gold mask.
A mysterious cultural relic and the latest achievements of the Sanxingdui archaeological excavation will be revealed at a global promotion event in the Sanxingdui Museum on Friday night. The event will be a good platform for enhancing the exchanges and ...
Marvel Studios released a Chinese-subtitled trailer for The Eternals, directed by Oscar winner Chloe Zhao, on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo on Monday, indicating that the studio is confident that the film will get a release date in China, the world's ...
The task of playing China's well-known historical figures has always been a big but honorable challenge for actors. Actor Bao Jianfeng, who plays the role of the great leader Mao Zedong in the Chinese historical TV drama The Great Waves, ...
Following Youth With You 3's milk wasting scandal, another bomb dropped in the Chinese entertainment industry when it was revealed that stars are paid an average daily meal allowance of 1,500 to 2,000 yuan ($234-312) while filming variety shows. This ...
While Universal Pictures' action film Fast and Furious 9, which premiered in the Chinese mainland on Friday, enjoyed the highest-grossing opening weekend for a Hollywood movie in China since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, the film only managed to score ...
Several Chinese TV stations and online platforms preempted the broadcast of their ordinary Saturday night lineup of entertainment shows to mourn the death of China's 91-year-old “Father of Hybrid Rice” Yuan Longping, who passed away Saturday afternoon. The decision earned ...
Eight films including highly anticipated Hollywood action film Fast and Furious 9 and re-released Japanese romance Love Letter are competing with domestic Chinese movies on Thursday, May 20, which means “I love you” in Chinese. The four-day long (Thursday to ...
Universal Pictures' action film Fast & Furious 9 will beat Warner Bros' monster film Godzilla vs. Kong to become the highest-grossing Hollywood movie in China since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic and may ignite a new wave of movie watching ...
When it comes to which country has the most museums, China ranks fourth in the world. It is also the country where museums were closed for the least amount of time out of all countries in the world during the ...
Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Shang-Chi) and Eternals will not give up the world's largest film market, especially when US cinemas are still under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, though the two might face some ...
Chinese cultural observers said it would be too 'politically correct' for Amazon's Lord of the Rings TV series to force in a role played by an Asian actor and might trigger some racial problems if the newly added role was ...
Chinese psychologists have called for more care of the mental health of children and adolescents on Thursday following the tragic death of a 16-year-old student who jumped to his death at a high school in Southwest China's Sichuan Province.
High-profile Chinese actress Zheng Shuang's ex-partner Zhang Heng announced on Thursday that he had won what he called "Parenting Solo Decision-Making Authority" of their two surrogatedchildren in the US, adding that he was willing to accept any punishment for the ...
Hit Chinese TV series Word of Honor will debut on South Korean TV on May 26 with Korean subtitles, Chinese media reported on Tuesday.
China, Afghanistan and Pakistan on Tuesday co-signed the first Asian bilateral cooperation agreements on Asian Cultural Heritage Protection during an online workshop.
A team of Chinese paleontologists have found fossils in East China's Fujian Province that indicate the climate in the region 15 million years ago was very similar to the global climate currently predicted for the year 2100. The discovery is ...
The rise in film and TV companies opened by celebrities, such as actors Wang Yibo and Shen Teng, in South China's Hainan Province has attracted the attention of Chinese social media after more than 75 Chinese stars closed their studios ...
Chinese competition reality shows are no longer allowed to set up systems in which fans can spend money to vote for their favorites, according to a new notice issued by the Beijing Municipal Radio and Television Bureau on Monday. The ...
China's National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA) and other cultural authorities will co-launch a batch of activities to mark the International Museum Day on May 18, which will focus on a discussion of global museums' role amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Zhang Yimou's first spy-genre film Cliff Walkers passed youth romance film My Love at the daily box office on Monday during China's May Day holiday due to good word of mouth. Chinese film analysts chalk the success up to Chinese ...
"She got a beautiful eye, walk in a line, smile with her type; She knows all about life, never ask why, driving everyone crazy, crazy…" Everyone is surprised that this original song, She, which has so far topped more than ...
Editor's Note: China's May Day holiday is set to be the most crowded film season in history, with 12 big films (11 Chinese films) competing in theaters. The holiday is expected to bring in 1.8 billion yuan ($278 million). Hollywood blockbusters ...
More than 75 Chinese stars closed the private companies they had registered in their name after Zheng Shuang, an actress who was recently involved in a surrogacy dispute scandal, and the company she registered came under investigation for the same ...
Chinese actress Zheng Shuang who was being involved into a surrogacy dispute scandal is once again under the spotlight on Chinese social media after her husband alleged Zheng's controversial behaviors including tax evasion for her super high remuneration for a ...
A gorgeous tea dress with high-heeled shoes, all black hip-hop outfits with Dr. Martens boots, long silk clothes embroidered with dragon patterns… Chinese street fashion including hanfu, a popular type of traditional Chinese clothing, is taking over short video platforms ...
China's first yoga library officially opened in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province on Tuesday. Indian Ambassador to China Vikram Misri and his wife visited the library during its opening, according to the report of China News.
“How is the experience of staying in a hotel's presidential suite worth $11,511 for one night?” A bunch of short videos showing off wealth have been flooding onto Chinese short video platforms, satisfying the curiosity of Chinese viewers But this ...
The 24th animation film franchise Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet kicked off in China on Saturday, only grossing 69.7 million yuan ($10 million) on the premiere day.
The three epic fantasy adventure films in The Lord of the Rings trilogy are set for re-release in the Chinese mainland, this time in 4K. The first film is set to hit theaters on Friday, with the second following up ...
Sitcom Come Home Love: Lo and Behold, airing on Hong Kong's Television Broadcasts Limited, has earned numerous thumbs-up from netizens in the Chinese mainland for including a scene promoting national security law. Many netizens in the mainland commented on how ...
Chinese archaeologists found a bronze item with a rare round-shaped mouth in the 3rd pit of the ancient Sanxingdui Ruins site in Central China's Sichuan Province on Monday, which experts said it is the first bronze statue with the unique ...
A total of eight Chinese films will release in South Korea in 2021. Such a big number of Chinese films can be seen as a sign of an increased cultural communication between China and South Korea, but the previous dominance ...
The 11th Beijing International Film Festival (BIFF) has been postponed from April to August, the festival announced on Saturday.
Every day after work, the most enjoyable thing for Beijinger Liu Jianran is to become a couch potato and watch some clips about the latest hit Chinese dramas on short video apps.
Following Marvel's move to film a live-action movie based on "Monkey King," the legendary hero of Chinese mythology Journey to the West, DC comics also announced on Tuesday that Monkey Prince, a new DC character with Asian heritage, will debut ...
As theaters in North America are hailing Hollywood monster mash Godzilla vs. Kong for setting the best pandemic box office record over the Easter weekend, Chinese feature film Sister, which tackles sibling relationships, quickly defeated Warner Bros' tentpole during China's ...
Chinese netizens are calling for five foreign trainees taking part in the hit Chinese variety show Chuang 2021 to “get off the show” after entertainment agencies Avex Group in Japan and RBW in South Korea became embroiled in a controversy ...
The decision by China's Hong Kong TV station Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) not to broadcast the 93rd Academy Awards reveals the station's political stance as well as an opposing position to the political views of the awards, Chinese film experts ...
China's homegrown films are likely to see fierce competition at the box office during China's Labor Day holiday (May 1-5), with no major imported blockbusters lined up for release that weekend.
The world cultural heritage application for the Beijing Central Axis has entered into the home stretch as renovation work continues, according to a statement from the application team on Monday.
The news that an unauthorized construction project at Beijing's Yuanmingyuan, or Old Summer Palace, has been order to be stopped began trending on Chinese social media on Thursday after China's cultural relics authority released a report on law enforcement patrols ...
"Forward this koi fish and you will get what you want the most in seven days!"
Construction on a new branch museum of the Sanxingdui Museum dedicated to displaying exquisite ancient Chinese cultural relics that were recently excavated, is expected to start in 2021, museum officials announced on Monday.
The Beijing International Film Festival (BIFF) is likely to be postponed to August as the world is still under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic and international travel limit may improve come summer, Chinese film experts and insiders have said.
"After sleeping for 3,000 years, their awakening has shocked the world." Hundreds of cultural relics dating back to more than 3,000 years ago have been newly excavated from the Sanxingdui Ruins in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, stunning archaeologists and history ...
Eighteen years after Zhang Yimou's Hero was nominated in the international feature film category at the Academy Awards, Chinese film Better Days has once again been nominated, but Chinese moviegoers' affection for the "Oscars' knot" appears less strong than in ...
The hashtag for “National Radio and Television Administration publicly solicits opinions on film and television classification” and “minors' channels” began trending on Chinese social media on Wednesday after the administration issued a notice seeking opinions about a change to China's ...
China's National Radio and Television Administration published a draft regulation on Tuesday that includes an article limiting the broadcast of programs featuring entertainers who have committed illegal or immoral acts. The move has been applauded by Chinese netizens, who have ...
Chinese vendors on major e-commerce platforms are suspected of illegally selling shahtoosh shawls made from endangered Tibetan antelopes in India and Kashmir, The Paper reported on Tuesday.
As was expected, Chinese director Zhao Ting, better known as Chloe Zhao, has received a total of six Academy Award nominations for Nomadland. It seems that this award-winning film would definitely earn at least one Oscar statuette from the Academy, ...
Chinese singer and dancer Zhang Yixing, better known as Lay Zhang, and his company Chromosome Entertainment began trending on Chinese social media on Tuesday after adding "other" as an option under gender on its trainee application form.
Chinese film Hi, Mom, which recently became the second highest-grossing film in China, is set to be released overseas, but Chinese film experts say they are not optimistic about its international box office due to cultural differences as well as ...
Chinese netizens showed support for Greece's request that the UK return Parthenon marble sculptures on Sunday, going on to question whether the looted Chinese relics displayed at the British Museum are the legitimate property of the museum.
The broadcast of Chinese TV drama Storm Eye, a rare TV show about China's State Security Ministry, has been questioned on social media due to its "dramatic plots," but the producers have defended that China is more "conservative" on this ...
A Chinese lawmaker's proposal to include the abandonment of pets in personal social credit records has gained a lot of support among both Chinese netizens and experts in animal protection.
Following the news that 2009 sci-fi epic Avatar will be re-released in China on Friday, rumors that The Lord of the Rings trilogy of films would be next also began spreading around the internet, igniting the passion of Chinese moviegoers ...
The first exhibition themed around the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Communist Party of China (CPC) will open at the Capital Museum in Beijing on Wednesday.
More than 50 Chinese political advisors have jointly proposed to set Teacher's Day on ancient educator and philosopher Confucius's birthday to mark the day's significance by endowing it with cultural and historical meaning.
The hashtag for a proposal to establish a compulsory relationship and marriage education course in universities has topped the trending list on Chinese social media on Monday, with netizens putting posts covering both the pros and cons of such a ...
A proposal to tighten admission standards for international students in China has gained support among Chinese netizens. However, experts noted that China is making certain strategic adjustments in the enrollment of international students.
A proposal to establish "Hanfu Day," a holiday focused on the traditional clothing of the ethnic Han Chinese , at the two sessions has sparked heated discussions on Chinese social media, with netizens flooding the platform with posts covering both ...
An official formerly with the All-China Women's Federation has suggested that China's public security department list "family violence" as a separate item in the 110 alarm system in order to better collect information on domestic violence cases, the People's Daily ...
Chinese netizens have expressed confidence that the sequel to the blockbuster 2019 film Sheep Without a Shepherd will be completed on schedule as Drishyam 2, the sequel to the hit 2013 Indian Malayalam-language film Drishyam, was released in February.
Young Chinese are dealing with a severe lack of sleep and the situation is growing worse, a new health report showed on Monday.
Warner Bros' new film production The Great Chinese Art Heist, about a robbery at France's Palace of Fontainebleau, during which Chinese relics having originally looted from Beijing's Old Summer Palace were stolen, has sparked an uproar among Chinese netizens as ...
Chinese netizens flooded social media platforms to congratulate Chinese director Zhao Ting, also known as Chloe Zhao, who on Sunday won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, making her the second woman, and the only Asian woman, to win ...
With Detective Chinatown 3 toppling Avengers: Endgame by grossing over 4.25 billion yuan ($656 million) on Saturday, the top five highest-earning films in the Chinese mainland market are now all domestic films. Action film Wolf Warrior 2 remains No.1 followed ...
When waking up in the morning, the first thing for college student Han Rui is to check on her idol Lay Zhang's Sina Weibo account and post some repeated comments that praise her idol.
China's first lawsuit concerning a college textbook that described homosexuality as a mental disorder has came to an end after the Suyu District Court of Suqian City in East China rejected the plaintiff's appeal and upheld its original judgment that ...
The Chinese mainland film market has entered the epilogue of the Spring Festival holiday with a total box office of more than 7.8 billion yuan ($1.2 billion) stunning domestic as well as overseas moviegoers.
A total of 988 species of wildlife animals, including 517 newly added animals, are now on the amended National List of Protected Wild Animals, which Chinese experts say poses quite a challenge for wild animal conservation efforts.
China's CCTV and South Korea's public television network KBS signed an agreement on Monday to cooperate in various aspects of the cultural industry, which Chinese experts said is a significant move to promote the cultural communication between the two countries.
A video from a Chinese blogger showing how to make a fake news report on China in a "CNN or Apple Daily style" went viral on Chinese social media on Tuesday. The blogger criticized that the two media outlets for ...
As Chinese mainland continues to make box-office history by grossing 10.72 billion yuan ($1.66 billion) for the month of February as of Monday, pirated copies of seven domestic films that released during the Spring Festival holidays have already begun springing ...
Hit South Korean period drama River Where the Moon Rises, set in the ancient Goguryeo Kingdom (37 BC - 668), has earned an unprecedented low score of 2.3/10 on major Chinese media review site Douban after it irritated many Chinese ...
Editor's Note: After surpassing North America in December 2020 to become the world's No.1 box office, the Chinese mainland has continued to break records by bringing in 7. 82 billion yuan ($1.2 billion) at the 2021 Spring Festival box office, ...
After his previous email stirred up an online spat concerning the origins of kimchi, Seo Kyoung-duk, a professor at South Korea's Sungshin Women's University, sent another email on Tuesday to Baidu Baike, China's Wikipedia-like platform, asking the platform to change ...
The animated TV show Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Dunk for Victories has won approval among viewers and basketball fans for its storyline paying tribute to legendary basketball players including Kobe Bryant who died last year.
The video production company of the newly released Chinese TV series Douluo Continent issued an apology on Sunday for plagiarizing British TV series His Dark Materials and a role in the computer game League of Legends while producing the opening ...
Photos of a Chinese actress' unsuccessful nose surgery went viral on Chinese social media on Thursday, drawing sympathy from many Chinese netizens and prompting calls for tighter regulation of the cosmetic surgery industry.
Editor's Note: The Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year, is the most important holiday for the Chinese box office. For the 2021 holiday period, which runs on February 11-17, seven eye-catching films will hit theaters in the Chinese mainland. With ...
Deer Squad, the first original Chinese cartoon which was released on Nickelodeon in the US in January 2021, has achieved a great success and is now set to make the jump to TV stations in countries of Europe and Africa ...
A hashtag for “the annual salary of marriage councilors in Shanghai exceeds million yuan” on Chinese social media website Sina Weibo has spurred debate among Chinese netizens, many of whom suspect the industry to be fraudulent.
On Monday, China's cultural authorities published the results of a survey exploring people outside China's thoughts on the concept of "building a community with a shared future for mankind" and cultural exchanges. The survey revealed that people in most countries ...
China's top education authority recently announced strong support for the establishment of aesthetic medicine disciplines and personnel training in the country. The announcement has won applause from pursuers of beauty, many of whom are saying that the move could mean ...
With the pandemic forcing Paris Fashion week online, haute couture designers have turned to celebrated arthouse filmmakers to give a little spectacle to their presentations, even if some admit a growing desperation to return to live shows.
The sale of digital emotes featuring images of children alongside sexually explicit words has evoked the anger of Chinese netizens, while Chinese experts have weighed in saying that both merchants and online platforms selling these emotes have violated the law. ...
A film project that was recently approved for filming by the Chinese film authority has sparked yet another round of discussion about the controversial subject of surrogacy, which is illegal in China, on Chinese social media following the recent scandal ...
Shanghai residents will be allowed to bring their pets together with them for quarantine after new local COVID-19 cases were reported in the city, triggering heated discussion on Chinese Twitter-like Sina Weibo, with over 200 million reads as of press ...
A court's ruling that the studio behind popular Chinese cartoon Boonie Bears is 10 percent responsible for the death of an 8-year-old girl evoked dissatisfaction among Chinese netizens on Wednesday.
Controversial Chinese writer Guo Jingming has once again become the target of criticism on social media for not keeping his promise to financially compensate Zhuang Yu, the author he plagiarized.
Chinese film experts are concerned that the current COVID-19 epidemic situation in China might affect the domestic box office during the upcoming Chinese New Year period, with box office takings expected to surpass 5 billion yuan ($ 771 million) in ...
A course aimed at helping children who are spending too much time playing online games restore their school/fun balance by giving them a “taste” of reality has captured the attention of parents in China.
Chinese netizens are calling for strict punishment and more measures to be taken to protect ancient buildings after a video showing people sell parts of ancient houses built during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) went viral on ...
The Japanese remake of Chinese drama LOVE O2O has been criticized by Chinese netizens.
