The biggest lie to yourself might be “I must go to sleep early tonight!” When the night comes, leisure activities such as watching dramas, shopping online and playing computer games can make it hard to switch off. This is the ...
The poster for the US film 355, starring Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, has come under fire in China for using the Chinese national flag, which Chinese netizens claim violates China's advertising law forbidding the flag's commercial use.
When some Western media spotlighted the controversial film Revolution of Our Times winning the prize for "best documentary" at the so-called Chinese-language "Oscars", a number of Chinese filmmakers and industry observers lamented that the Golden Horse Awards have become a ...
Digital wallets, bike-sharing, online shopping… The highly developed digital industry in China has left a deep impression on 26-year-old Japanese man Hideo Natsume, who decided to write a book to share his 19-year experience of living in China with the ...
No.1! On Wednesday afternoon, the box office (including presales) of the Battle at Lake Changjin surpassed Wolf Warrior2 (5.694 billion yuan) to become the highest-grossing film in Chinese film history.
Netizens from China and abroad have expressed anger over a Disney Christmas advert called Stepdad, in which a black man is a stepfather raising two Asian children. Netizens said it does not match the reality of “Asian hate” in US ...
The Chinese film market has already achieved several of the goals set out in the recently released 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) for the film industry. According to film industry analysts, data shows an optimistic blueprint for expanding the influence of ...
The Chinese mainland film market has already achieved several of the goals set out in the recently released 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) for the film industry. According to film industry analysts, data shows an optimistic blueprint for expanding the influence ...
Chinese romantic fantasy film The Curse of Turandot has earned the “honor” of being the worst movie of 2021 after the hashtag for the worst movie of the year began trending on Chinese social media on Sunday.
Sheep Without a Shepherd 2, the sequel to the blockbuster 2019 film Sheep Without a Shepherd, might end up being the highest-earning crime and suspense film of 2021 based on its previous success in the adaptation of India's Bollywood film, ...
Among the dazzling discounted goods on sale during the ongoing annual Tmall Double 11 global online shopping festival on Thursday, mysterious archaeological blind boxes have risen to the fore as a new craze among Chinese consumers.
For many young Chinese it has become a popular trend to design their own virtual character and then hire an artist to make it a reality. However, in the rush to own these perfect images, these youths, many of whom ...
Days after Marvel's Eternals debuted in North America, Chinese film observers are predicting that the film is highly likely to become the third Marvel superhero film that has no chance to be released in the Chinese mainland, following Black Widow ...
Anita, a biopic on legendary Hong Kong star Anita Mui, is set to premiere in the Chinese mainland on Friday. The film's eminent arrival has aroused strong nostalgia for the "daughter of Hong Kong" among Chinese moviegoers and many celebrities ...
War epic the Battle at Lake Changjin, the highest-grossing film worldwide in 2021, is scheduled to be released in Hong Kong and Macao on Thursday, the film's production team announced on Saturday.
The Wuzhen Scenic Area in East China's Zhejiang Province Wednesday night announced that it was temporarily closed after a visitor tested positive for COVID-19 Wednesday afternoon.
In Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, a local family has lived along the banks of the ancient Tarim River for seven generations.
Two months into a new semester and everything in the newly built unique school in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) has gradually fallen into place.
Another scandal related to Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu has started trending on Chinese social media on Tuesday. This time, his agency has become embroiled in a lawsuit over contract violations.
The first multilateral conference for the protection of Asian cultural heritage, the Asian Dialogue for Cultural Heritage Conservation, was held on Wednesday in Beijing.
Hollywood sci-fi epic Dune has divided Chinese moviegoers, with some film observers saying that due to its literary nature it might be hard for the film to be a big success and restore the luster of Hollywood in China.
One might say that, the pandemic would have discouraged a lot of visitors to Wuzhen and it might by a "quiet" theater festival in 2021. But this year the lively holiday sentiment was still there.
The 2021 Beijing Ethnographic Film Festival launched by the Chinese National Museum of Ethnology kicked off at Renmin University of China in Beijing on Thursday.
Chinese war epic The Battle at Lake Changjin surpassed the 5 billion yuan ($ 782 million) mark at the Chinese mainland box office on Tuesday, its 20th day of screening, allowing it to overtake the sci-fi blockbuster The Wandering Earth ...
More than 10,000 Chinese internet literature works have been released overseas as of 2020, becoming the biggest IP source for Chinese cultural works introduced to the world, according to a report on the international communication of Chinese Internet Literature released ...
Red lips, white skin… the trend of perusing the makeup used by Chinese women during different dynasties has been emerging recently. But what did Chinese women use for makeup thousands of years ago?
China's National Cultural Heritage Administration on Friday held a work report briefing about Yangshao culture, one of the earliest Neolithic cultures identified in China dating back to 5,000 to 7,000 years, for commemorating the centennial of the establishment of modern ...
After the gate opens, the 43 mare "beauties" of "marriageable" age did not rush into the green semi-wild area, but rather squeezed together into a large group next to the steel pipe fence of the wild horse training grounds as ...
China's first 3D-printed dinosaur skeleton is on display at the ongoing COP15 held in Kunming, Southwest China's Yunnan Province to showcase China's biodiversity conservation practice and achievement.
The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) is being held in Kunming, capital of Southwest China's Yunnan Province. The world's sights are focused on the place and many people ...
A video showing an employee dressed in a Duffy Bear costume at the Shanghai Disney Theme Park being hit in the head by a visitor has gone viral on Chinese social media. The images ignited the fury of many Chinese ...
The Battle at Lake Changjin, whose box office is expected to be the largest in Chinese film history, has pushed the patriotic sentiment of people across the country to a peak amid the tense China-US competition and China's effective control ...
The 11th Beijing International Film Festival is scheduled to end on Wednesday. As China's one of the most important film feasts, the festival offered many topics concerning the global development of film.
The Chinese-made historical war epic The Battle at Lake Changjin, which focuses on a major battle in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-53), will debut in Chinese theaters on Thursday. The film is expected to be ...
China's National Cultural Heritage Administration on Sunday announced in a video conference that it would transfer 12 pieces of cultural relics and artworks retrieved from the US to the Tibet Museum in Southwest China's Xizang (Tibet Autonomous Region).
Illuminated by Apollo's sun, a pair of bronze statues of the world's two wisest philosophers, Socrates and Confucius, stand together in Athens, the center of Greek culture, looking as if they are in deep discussion.
In a dark "mourning" hall, a group of female college students hold tightly onto each other's hands. They are trying to finish various tasks given to them from a "ghost" in the hopes of "escaping" the room soon and bringing ...
"Guys, I am being cyber bullied by my own country after my country's largest newspaper defamed me by saying that 'I am funded by the Chinese government.' My future has been ruined," a 26-year-old Slovakian girl currently living in China ...
Entering the grand Silk Road International Cultural Exchange Center, though people are required to wear face masks, you can still hear the sound of giggling and laughing as both the young and the old enjoy the fantastic performances at the ...
The opening ceremony for the Pakistan pavilion at the 28th Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF) kicked off on Tuesday to celebrate the 70th anniversary of establishment of the diplomatic relations between China and Pakistan.
Have you ever tried to sing the traditional Chinese opera Kunqu, or Kunqu Opera, in another language while still keeping its original flavor and spirit? Well, that's exactly what 26-year-old French woman Alice Roche has been doing.
Yi Yun (pseudonym), an employee at an entertainment company, was very excited to get a ticket to a movie premiere sent to her from a friend, an insider in the studio. But when she entered the theater, she was shocked ...
Chinese cultural relic authorities on Thursday revealed some new discoveries from the mysterious Sanxingdui Ruins in Sichuan Province, including a gold mask, a huge bronze mask, bronze statues and ivory carvings.
China's National Radio and Television Administration issued a notice on Thursday that put a lid on idol training shows - competitive reality shows that pit potential stars against each other, with the winners going on to become China's newest idols ...
As the blind-box craze continues to expand into industries such as high fashion, Chinese museums are now trying to capitalize on the trend with “archaeological blind boxes.”
Chinese-produced epic The Battle at Lake Changjin of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-53) is set to be released in the Chinese mainland on September 30, the film's official Sina Weibo account announced on Wednesday, the ...
Chinese pop singer Cai Xukun's studio on Tuesday issued an apology for a controversial method of selling his new album and called on fans to halt irrational abuse.
Violet (pseudonym), a 26-year-old English teacher at a high school in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, recently went to a cosmetic surgery clinic after feeling pressure by her colleagues and even her students, many of whom have become addicted to undergoing ...
Disney's action comedy Free Guy has stood out from the crowd during China's summer season with its decent box office take and solid word-of-mouth, but it will be unable to turn around the muted performance of Hollywood in the Chinese ...
Disney/20th Century Studios' action comedy Free Guy has been enjoying a good opening weekend in the Chinese mainland, rising to No.1 and looking to take in an estimated 135 million yuan ($20.9 million) at the weekend box office.
The account of Chinese male blogger Feng Xiaoyi was removed from Douyin, the Chinese version TikTok, Tuesday after numerous netizens commented that his videos were too "feminine" and lacked of "masculinity."
China's most well-known stand-up comedian Li Dan was fined for more than 870,000 yuan ($134,347) for an ad for women's underwear that was insulting to women, thus violating China's Advertising Law, Beijing authorities announced on Tuesday.
The Shaanxi Provincial Museum of Fine Arts and the China Cultural Center in Nepal are hosting a new online exhibition of Ansai modern folk paintings, an art form from Shaanxi to promote cultural exchanges made possible by China's Belt and ...
New action drama movie Biubiubiu broke a record for a film on a streaming platform after it earned a high 8.3/10 score on Chinese review platform Douban following its release on Chinese streaming platform Youku on Friday. Chinese experts are ...
Chinese women's volleyball star player Zhu Ting said on Thursday that she has reported to police some recent disinformation about her circulating on the internet, and that she may appeal to the court.
Japanese documentary director Ryo Takeuchi returned to his home country despite the COVID-19 pandemic to film the Tokyo Olympic Games, finally recording the voices of volunteers, journalists and the host of women's volleyball. The resulting documentary was released online on ...
After a four-year investigation, 10 stolen Buddha heads were finally returned to their home in Jiajiang county, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, media reported on Tuesday.
China's e-cigarette and growth hormone companies tumbled on Thursday, after state media issued a new warning that these products do damage to people's health.
Chinese experts said the current distorted fan culture is due to an invisible and gray industrial chain that induces young fans to spend money and boost certain stars' popularity for profit, and they called for building a healthy and positive ...
The detention of Chinese-Canadian pop idol Kris Wu on suspicion of rape has come as an earthquake to the Chinese entertainment industry, which analysts believe would be a wake-up call for not only long-beloved idols, but also major powers in ...
Chinese-Canadian pop idol Kris Wu will serve his sentence in China if convicted of multiple rape charges and will then be deported after serving his sentence, lawyers said on Sunday.
The cities of Fuzhou, China and Kazan, Russia will take joint responsibility for promoting World Heritage sites, Chinese officials announced on Tuesday at the 44th session of the World Heritage Committee held in Fuzhou, East China's Fujian Province.
Chinese Korean War epic The Battle at Lake Changjin has the potential to save a sluggish summer season in China and is “likely” to beat record-setting action film Wolf Warrior 2, Chinese film observers said on Tuesday.
A Chinese expert said UNESCO's praise to the continued efforts in the conservation of the Great Wall is an acknowledgement to China's increasingly important role in international heritage affairs.
Torrential rain in Central China's Henan Province has unearthed an ancient Han Dynasty (206BC-AD220) tomb and efforts are currently underway to rescue the site and its relics, local officials said on Sunday.
Over 700 years ago, Italian explorer and merchant Marco Polo departed ancient China through the Maritime Silk Road. After he introduced exquisite Chinese porcelain, silk and tea to Europe, the world turned their interest to the prosperous marine city he ...
Claiming the Great Barrier Reef is "the best managed reef" despite its deteriorating conditions, Australia's opposition to UNESCO's proposal to label its national treasure as "in danger" reflects its short-sightedness in only seeing the economic value in the reefs, Chinese ...
The 6th Jackie Chan International Action Film Week will be held in North China's Shanxi Province on August 6-8 and a new selection of global classic action movies called "Top Ten Classic Actions" will be revealed at the event, it ...
A new animation movie inspired on one of the eight wonders of the world and World Heritage Site, the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, China's original film Realm of Terracotta was praised by Chinese moviegoers. Film experts said Chinese ...
The Beijing Central Axis, China's unique cultural and historical core, is expected to be listed as a World Heritage Site before 2035, officials said at the 44th session of the World Heritage Committee held in Fuzhou, capital city of East ...
Even though it was early in the morning on a workday, visitors had already begun lining up on Thursday for the opening of Museum of the Communist Party of China (CPC) - the Party's new "spiritual home."
The delayed release of Black Widow in the Chinese mainland might be due to the negative word-of-mouth over Marvel's controversial films Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Eternals on Chinese social media, Chinese film observers said on ...
Chinese netizens on Monday sent congratulations to the man who found his abducted son after 24 years and called for a sequel of Lost and Love, an adaption from this child trafficking case. However, netizens want to add this happy ...
China's protection of world heritage sites is significantly better than the international average, Chinese officials announced on Monday.
Hengdian World Studios, China's equivalent to Hollywood, has fully reclaimed the vitality it had from before the pandemic and has even surpassed it, staff and actors at the film base in East China's Zhejiang Province said on Wednesday.
Kengan Omega, a sequel of the Japanese manga series Kengan Ashura, sparked outrage among Chinese manga fans after its story referred to the island of Taiwan as a country. Chinese observers emphatically pointed that creators should have a baseline in ...
Two years ago, the Pearl of the Orient- Hong Kong was still in a social turmoil after protesters took to the streets and used the public's misunderstanding of the Communist Part of China (CPC) to incite hatred. Now after a ...
Masako Furuichi, a Japanese teacher at the Foreign Languages School of Peking University, was shocked when she saw the headline of her student's dissertation: Japanese anime has begun to decline. She felt that Chinese anime has shaken the status of ...
During a time of war 90 years ago, as Chinese soldiers fought against Japanese invaders, a group of people did their duty and risked their lives to move ancient Chinese relics from Beijing to the south. This is the unprecedented ...
The Communist Party of China (CPC)'s centennial has set off a new movie-watching boom among Chinese moviegoers as the two commemorative films 1921 and The Pioneer were released on Thursday.
Like a seed-planting machine sowing the ideals of Communism in the fertile Chinese soil, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has been making use of the latest and most effective means to make its spirit known to the people, especially ...
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.
