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."
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.
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.
