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.
A collection of ancient Dunhuang manuscripts housed in France was published in China on Wednesday, a move that Chinese experts said will promote both the research on Dunhuang and ancient Tibetan studies.
More than 10,000 ancient coins dating back to Song Dynasty (960-1279) were unearthed in a village in Ningxiang in Central China's Hunan Province, the local cultural tourism administration announced on Wednesday.
After photos showing Nancy, a member of K-pop band Momoland, undressing were leaked by a staff member and illegally sold online, Chinese netizens took to social media to voice their strong condemnation of the illegal acts.
A Chinese web author has become the target of a backlash from netizens on Saturday after posting some controversial comments about feminism on social media. The backlash has also caused some trouble for a TV adaptation of the author's work. ...
The Chinese version Abandoning A Cat: What I Talk About When I Talk About My Father written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami was published on Thursday.
Entering the Old Summer Palace's Cultural Relic Restoration Workstation, several restoration experts wearing white uniforms can be seen sitting together, trying to assemble various ceramic chips into a complete porcelain bowl.
On Friday, New Year's Day, Wang Renqiu, a 33-year-old cycling lover from Central China's Hunan Province, posted a 2021 New Year's greeting video on Douyin, China's version of TikTok. In the video, he stands in front of his recreational vehicle ...
Citing industry insiders, Chinese entertainment site ifeng.com has reported that two Chinese films that have been accused of copying foreign works will be removed from cinemas starting Monday. The report comes as Guo Jingming, an author and the director of ...
Box office revenue in Chinese mainland topped 20.417 bln yuan ($ 3.1 billion) in 2020, surpassing that of North America.
Role-playing games have become one of China's most popular game genres, especially among young people, as suggested by a trending social media post on Tuesday that told of a surge in China's role-playing game stores, which have seen an increase ...
Chinese social media was filled with posts and candle emojis on Tuesday as netizens mourned legendary Chinese-born pianist Fou Ts'ong, who died on Monday in the UK from COVID-19, with some sadly commenting that he probably would not have died ...
Chinese netizens morn veteran pianist Fou Ts'ong, who died on Monday in the UK from COVID-19, at the age of 86, media reported on Tuesday.
Health Kit is an open platform targeted at people's fitness and health, which can be searched in China's WeChat and Alipay. It can show if the person is healthy and safe and if they have been to a high-risk area ...
A public charity event aimed at getting people to donate their hair to people who have been diagnosed with cancer was launched by a fan club dedicated to Chinese star Jackson Yee on Monday , warming the hearts of many ...
As 2020 draws to an end, things are heating up at the Chinese mainland box office as two blockbuster films, The Rescue directed by Dante Lam, and Hollywood superhero film Wonder Woman 1984, were released on Friday. However, it remains ...
Could you ever imagine that you are able to learn the valuable Chinese intangible cultural heritage embroidery skills by just wearing an electronic sensing device on your head and wrist?
A draft on the video game content rating system has been introduced on Wednesday under the guidance of China's National Press and Publication Administration, which Chinese experts said is a good move for the sound development of children as well ...
Exhibition Odyssey and Homecoming, which explores the Forbidden City and the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, kicked off at the Palace Museum on Monday. A total of 180 artworks by artist Cai Guoqiang are on display to show off traditional ...
A new variety show, Shine! Super Brothers, has become a hot topic on Chinese social media and has stirred a heated discussion about the different beauty standards between men and women.
The site of ancient rice fields in East China's Zhejiang Province was confirmed on Monday by local archaeology authorities to be the earliest known cultivated rice fields in the world. Chinese experts say the site, which dates back to 7,000 ...
"People first, lives first," "pandemic," "quarantine," "face masks"… Without a doubt the COVID-19 pandemic has dominated the word of the year lists in every country in the world, which Chinese experts say is a rare example of a shared situation ...
Editor's Note: December looks to be a very busy time for Chinese theaters and moviegoers as a total of 57 movies are scheduled for the month. Many Chinese film experts are now predicting that the 2020 box office for the Chinese ...
The offending scene features an Asian-American soldier (Jin) who shouts "Look at my knees! What kind of knees are these?" After his companion turns to look, the solider says "Chinese!" while emphasizing the second syllable to make a pun.
The artificial intelligence (AI) can be a great means to meet potential lovers, but finding Mr or Ms Right still needs face-to-face and heart-to-heart communication, Chinese experts told the Global Times after Chinese netizens began asking if China could follow ...
December looks to be a very busy time for Chinese theaters and moviegoers as a total of 57 movies are scheduled for the month. Many Chinese film experts are now predicting that the 2020 box office for the Chinese mainland ...
No matter if it is a screenplay praising Chinese heroism or dealing with being called "China's Wolf Warrior Diplomat" by foreign media, "we need to and have the right to speak," said Lü Jianmin, the producer of the Chinese blockbuster ...
In reaction to anger from South Korean netizens over the ownership of pickled cabbage, Chinese netizens have begun uploading pictures of various pickled vegetable dishes from their hometowns to social media in an effort to show off China's rich pickled ...
The return of a bronze horse zodiac head to its home at Yuanmingyuan (the Old Summer Palace) on Tuesday was a crucial step in the homecoming of important cultural relics stolen by invaders over 100 years ago, and evoked the ...
Twenty-two-year-old giant panda Mei Xiang's appetite has returned to normal and she has begun to take her son Xiao Qi Ji (Little Miracle) on more frequent field trips to their other habitats, the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington DC told ...
If you get a divorce, would you be willing to once again live with your ex in the same house for three days? The recently released South Korean variety show We Got Divorced explores this question. Since its premiere, the ...
As the lights turned back on in the theater, most people in the audience, both young and old, were still wiping the tears from their eyes. Touched by the story they had just seen, they left the theater with a ...
Chinese netizens once again picked up calls for the return of the panda family living in the Smithsonian's National Zoo in the US after the zoo announced on Monday local time that the name of its newborn giant panda is ...
Chinese netizens took to social media on Thursday to call on Warner Bros to bring DC superhero film Wonder Woman 1984 to the Chinese mainland, arguing that it would be a good business move as the film would surely make ...
The UK has won applause from the Chinese public when China's cultural authorities announced Wednesday that the European country had returned 68 smuggled Chinese relics after 25 years of negotiations.
China's National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA) announced on Wednesday that after 25 years' continuous repatriation a total of 68 lost Chinese cultural relics have been returned in total from the UK, setting a good example for international cooperation in fighting ...
Two years ago, 31-year-old Ye Yun was worried about whether her porcelain shop in China's well-known "Porcelain Capital" Jingdezhen in East China's Jiangxi Province would be able to survive. At the time, she never thought that just two years later ...
A batch of ancient Buddhist statues that remained submerged in a reservoir in Beijing for 36 years resurfaced recently after the reservoir's water levels dropped 16 meters, the local cultural relics authority said on Monday.
Siberian tigers, also known as Amur tigers, are one of the world's most endangered species. Currently there are fewer than 500 remaining, with a majority of the population living in the wilds of Russia. As to the population living in ...
"Is this another Wuhan Diary like Fang Fang's?" This is the question some Chinese netizens posed after young woman Wu Shangzhe, also known as A Nian, published her personal story about what her family had experienced in Wuhan, Central China's ...
