With the approach of World Book Day on Friday, some Chinese online book stores have launched a "blind box" for books, attracting so many consumers that supply has fallen far short of demand. The idea to combine books and blind ...
As a part of China's Orchestra Festival 2021, the Xi'an Symphony Orchestra held a concert based on Chinese poems of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) accompanied by Western and traditional Chinese musical instruments on Saturday in Beijing.
Twenty music festivals are set to be held during the upcoming five-day May Day holidays in the Chinese mainland, which has ignited the excitement of Chinese music fans as well as that of local business owners who see these festivals ...
The influence of Chinese mainland pop culture on young Taiwan people has been found enlarging in a news outlet on the island of Taiwan, and one major piece of evidence of this influence is the widespread use of network buzzwords ...
The fourth International Urban Planning And Design Competition kicked off on Wednesday with the goal of further helping the old industrial city of Tangshan in North China's Hebei Province, which had been devastated by an earthquake, transform itself into a ...
Editor's Note: On Tuesday, the National Cultural Heritage Administration unveiled the top 10 archaeological discoveries of 2020 in China from among 20 candidates. These discoveries cover important academic fields including the origin of mankind and civilization, the formation and development of ...
The fashionable and artistic side of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region will be shown to visitors nationwide in China as the Dos Art Festival, or DosArtFest, is set to tour across the country. The tour is set to kick off ...
As Rose clung to a wooden panel that could only hold one person, she was forced to watch helplessly as her lover Jack died of hypothermia in the dark, cold sea water and gradually sank into the depths.
The winners of the 2021 British Academy Film Awards were announced on Sunday to the applause of Chinese netizens, who praised the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) for awarding Chinese filmmakers Chloe Zhao and Ang Lee.
Both the launch vehicle and the cargo spacecraft commissioned for construction missions of China's first-ever space station have arrived at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in South China's Hainan Province, waiting for a window period for the launch.
Five new animal species of wild animals have been discovered in Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, sparking the excitement of Chinese netizens about the ecology of the region.
The Consumer Rights Protection Committee in East China's Jiangsu Province published a report on Wednesday that said it had discovered 1,465 examples of objectionable behavior that could be harmful to children in 21 Chinese and foreign cartoons broadcast in China ...
Following a Chinese actress exposing her failed plastic surgery that gave her a necrotic nose, the medical authority ruled that the doctor was suspended from practicing for six months, the hospital was fined 49,000 yuan ($7,456) and the actress has ...
Registration for the annual Beijing Half Marathon, which wasn't held in 2020 due to COVID-19, reopened on Tuesday. The marathon is only open for 10,000 long-term residents of Beijing including foreigners due to pandemic restrictions.
To see the real state of China's poor rural areas and the fruits of the country's poverty alleviation efforts, Japanese director Ryo Takeuchi went deep in Liangshan Prefecture, once one of the poorest corners of China, to show the changes ...
A rap song attacking Western brands, which ban Xinjiang cotton based on fabrications of "forced labor" in the region, with sharp lyrics such as “the demons think there are demons all around” went viral on Chinese social media on Saturday, ...
Hollywood blockbuster Godzilla vs. Kong hit cinemas in the Chinese mainland on Friday. The film has earned an estimated 420 million yuan ($65 million) after three days, making it the highest-grossing imported film since mainland cinemas reopened in July 2020.
China's Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) entered in a partnership with South Korea's JYP Entertainment on Wednesday. The agreement will give TME the distribution rights to JYP's song catalogue including artists such as Twice and 2PM.
Upon learning the news that Indian actor Aamir Khan has tested positive for COVID-19, his Chinese fan club contacted the star's team as soon as possible. After confirming the news, his fans sent their best wishes to the star and ...
A newly released movie in the Chinese mainland is being accused of false advertising by moviegoers, many of whom are calling to boycott the film, because famous Chinese actor Shen Teng, one of the film's major selling points, only appears ...
A gang of Chinese tomb robbers have been sentenced for stealing cultural relics from several ruins. Many netizens cheered the news, but what has really captured people's attention is the unique way the gang committed the crime: running restaurants by ...
An exhibition of North Korean portrait and landscape oil paintings has been put on display at the Shanxi Art Museum in North China's Shanxi Province since more people in China are collecting these artworks as investments.
The distribution rights to Hong Kong director Peter Chan's sports bio of former Chinese tennis player Li Na have been sold, according to a Tuesday report, but the film's potential box office appears grim as Chinese netizens are calling for ...
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 ...
The first set of emoji inspired by US music legend, Michael Jackson, in commemoration of the singer in China, was launched on WeChat on Tuesday. The move was applauded by Chinese fans.
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 ...
China's first non-profit foundation dedicated to training legal talents and offering legal aid to the LGBTQ community was launched on Tuesday by three Chinese lawyers and a law professor.
The screening of a self-proclaimed documentary covering the black-clad riot at a campus in Hong Kong in 2019 was pulled from a local cinema on Monday, three hours ahead of its scheduled showing. Observers said that the film should not ...
After the cartoon Super Wings, originally produced in South Korea, was suspended from all video platforms in the Chinese mainland, its present production company, China's Alpha Group, apologized on Monday, noting a controversial episode that caused confusion about the Mid-Autumn ...
The largest solo exhibition of Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, who has won multiple awards including Oscars and Grammys, was originally set to open at a Chinese art museum on Monday, but the opening was postponed on Sunday after a worker ...
A deputy of the National People's Congress (NPC) has spoken out for female engineers, many of whom are not allowed to enter tunnel construction sites because of a superstition that women are bad luck for construction projects, and proposed that ...
A Chinese TV series focusing on the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chinese revolutionary history has stood out from the crowd of romantic and fantasy series by getting rave reviews from young viewers in China. Its ...
In the wake of several crackdowns by the US, Chinese telecom giant Huawei's overseas reputation may take a serious hit in the eyes of some Europeans and Americans. Can the company still survive under such pressure and how will it ...
The young actress Ouyang Nana from the island of Taiwan is once again under siege by some Taiwan media outlets, who accuse her of turning into a "member of the Communist Party of China (CPC)," following the announcement on Monday ...
Following rounds of US crackdowns, Chinese telecom giant Huawei's overseas reputation may take a serious hit in the eyes of some Europeans or Americans. Can the company still survive under sanctions and how will it continue to develop? Japanese documentary ...
Seeing the online gaming world dominated by men and the unequal treatment toward female gamers, a group of Chinese woman gamers have established an all-female online gaming community on Douban, a major Chinese media review platform, in an attempt to ...
With cherry blossom season right around the corner, the local government in Wuhan, Hubei Province, on Wednesday issued recommendations for the 10 best places to admire cherry blossoms in the city, including Wuhan University and Donghu Park.
The world's first interactive panda-themed museum opened on Wednesday in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, one of the major habitats for pandas.
Chinese movie Catman, starring South Korean actor and singer Oh Se-hun in the lead role, has finally received a new release date of March 14 in the Chinese mainland. Filmed in 2016 and originally scheduled for release in 2017, the ...
Some Chinese netizens are up in arms about the popular cartoon Super Wings, after they noticed that it misleads the children about the origin of China's Mid-Autumn Festival and uses wrong maps of China.
As Chinese celebrities competed in fashion and social media influence at the Weibo Awards Ceremony on Sunday, one actress became the center of public debate not due to her winning style, but because she had to go to the hospital ...
As China's 2021 two sessions approach, many proposals about public issues are being prepared by members of the top political advisory body, including one that challenges government policy unifying store signs.
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.
On Tuesday, China's National Radio and Television Administration published a list of 20 Chinese TV and film programs with excellent overseas influence, which included two series focusing on women's issues - the popular reality show Sisters Who Make Waves and ...
Young celebrity Ouyang Nana from the island of Taiwan forwarded a Sina Weibo post from the People's Daily that paid tribute to the PLA martyrs killed in the Galwan Valley border clash with India on Saturday, getting support from Sina ...
The Chinese film Hi, Mom, released during the Spring Festival holidays, has seen a steady growth in box office revenue surpassing 4.1 billion yuan ($630 million) and ranked first among synchronous movies. Its director Jia Ling has topped third in ...
An online social audio program marketing itself as the Chinese version of ClubHouse was launched on Chinese social media platform WeChat on Friday, but was suspended by the platform just a day later for "infringing on the legal rights of ...
The annual list of the Top 10 People Who Moved China in 2020 was published during an award ceremony on China Central Television (CCTV) on Wednesday. The list included heroes who took part in the fight against COVID-19 and the ...
A campaign to call on the boycotting of secret photography in cinemas has been launched on Chinese social media, three days before the Lunar New Year, when a batch of new movies will be released.
There is a group of street artists in Wuhan. In their graffiti works, oriental cherries can still blossom around the city's landmarks in the dark winter caused by the COVID-19 virus and phoenix can be reborn of fire on the ...
Japanese animated series Mushoku Tensei was suspended from Chinese video sharing platform Bilibili on Sunday, just a few weeks after its official introduction in China. Some content in the anime have been accused of violating mainstream values and morals and ...
To celebrate the 2021 Spring Festival and enrich the life of Beijing residents, especially those who are choosing not to travel during the holidays, several museums in the capital city will extend their opening hours to late at night as ...
A tourist attraction in East China's Jiangxi Province famous for its mountain peak shaped like the head of an elephant grabbed the attention of netizens after it has the "elephant" put on a huge face mask and announced it set ...
Chinese fans of fighter jets and aircraft carriers have been celebrating recently as some of China's newest military hardware has been appearing in large numbers on military programs, a change that has been hailed by viewers as they can appreciate ...
The official Sina Weibo account of the Guinness World Records announced on Tuesday that Chinese vlogger Li Ziqi set a new record for “Most subscribers for a Chinese language channel on YouTube” by going from 11.4 million subscribers in July ...
Universities throughout China are planning to hold a variety of events to celebrate the Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year, for students who cannot go home and stay with family during the holiday due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Behind-the-scenes footage from a Chinese TV series about the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-53), also known as the Korean War, Going Across the Yalu River, was aired on Sunday, making audiences touched again and recall the ...
Many consider 2020 to be the year that virtual idols finally took off in China because of its increasing market scale, the accession of entertainment and technology companies and the appearance of virtual idols on platforms such as livestreaming services. ...
As the camera pans across the scene, several pairs of children's shoes can be seen scattered on a shelf of the small cave dwelling where Liu Xiangzong, his wife and their little grandson share a single bed.
Well-known Chinese film critic Cheng Qingsong went viral on Tuesday after he announced his new relationship by posting a song written by his boyfriend on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo, and the post attracted many well-wishers.
One hour after being launched on Steam, the galaxy-themed online game "Dyson Sphere Program," made by a game company in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, rushed to the top of the best sales chart on the platform, stunning gamers around the ...
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of China-South Korea diplomatic ties in 1992, the Independence Hall of Korea, a history museum in Cheonan, South Korea, announced on Monday a plan to set up a memorial hall dedicated to ...
Two production lines, 60 days and 2 billion yuan ($309.4 million) - all these numbers mark the path the Chinese COVID-19 vaccine took to make its debut.
At a time when the attention of the nation is focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, a Chinese woman is trying to shine a light on the challenges facing female medical workers.
"Larry King's 'keep your question short and listen' inspired a lot of Chinese news anchors," wrote Lao Chunyan, a renowned Chinese host on Weibo, among millions of Chinese mourning sudden passing of the US host
On Friday, top Chinese singers Hua Chenyu and Zhang Bichen suddenly revealed that they had a baby together in 2018 and are set on raising the child together even though they are no longer in a relationship. The bomb following ...
The second season of China Central Television's (CCTV) travel program Say Hello to Life aired on Wednesday. The 12-episode season saw its hosts travel to a variety of places in China to interview locals and introduce local culture, but a ...
A netizen posted a video clip on Sina Weibo on Wednesday, saying that one of the giant pandas from China at the Memphis Zoo in Tennesseeappears to be too thin. In response to concern shown by netizens, a Chinese expert ...
The local government in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province, has launched an official guidebook to identify and prevent gender discrimination in advertisement following a huge controversy caused by a commercial from PurCotton, a brand based in the city.
Following in the footsteps of singers, dancers and other comedians, now computer programmers have gotten their own competitive reality show in China. Sponsored by the Ant Group, Ranshaoba tiancaichengxuyuan, which roughly translates to Burn Bright! Genius Programmer, seeks to display ...
A musical event kicked off in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on Sunday to select the most popular songs saluting those who have contributed to protecting local safety and the health of residents such as police and medical workers.
Many fans began to send messages to the university's official Sina Weibo account asking the student to be punished for damaging Yu's reputation. They asked the school to publicly criticize her and even expel the student.
To help promote the Chinese documentary film Days and Nights in Wuhan, which is set for release in Chinese mainland cinemas on January 22, hundreds of Chinese celebrities have booked more than 300 free screenings in 75 cities across the ...
Young users of Bilibili are growing up with the video platform. They are the epitome of Chinese young people, who are fond of absorbing a variety of cultures, far and near, domestic and abroad, and make foreign bloggers on the ...
Chinese film actress Zhang Ziyi took her first foray into TV on Saturday. However, unlike the accolades she has gotten for her performances in films from renowned directors such as Zhang Yimou and Ang Lee, the show has gotten many ...
Gautam Kamath, assistant professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada, began sharing his 24-hour computer science video course on Bilibili, a popular Chinese video sharing platform embraced by young Chinese, on January 3. His account on the site quickly ...
Based on a true story of a seriously injured Chinese narcotics policeman who was awakened from a coma by his wife, the musical drama Rebirth made its Beijing debut on Wednesday, days before China's first Chinese People's Police Day on ...
A US company was widely condemned for redesigning Mahjong tiles and renaming the game "American Mahjong", lighting fury among Twitter users, who said the move was racist and disrespectful of Chinese culture.
An animated series that aims to introduce the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is set to debut on Saturday, the first such animated series in China. The series looks to transform the principle of the TCM into interesting stories for Chinese ...
Two giant pandas at Edinburgh Zoo, the only pandas in the UK, may be heading home due to financial pressures at the zoo, according to media reports. Chinese netizens have welcomed the news of the pandas' possible return and it ...
Pixar's animated film Soul continued to perform well at the Chinese mainland box office during the New Year holiday weekend due to great word of mouth and praise from Chinese moviegoers, many of whom have fallen for the film's core ...
Chinese variety show Lady Land follows the hit show Sisters Who Make Waves, focusing on the winners of the show who successfully formed a girl band. These female celebrities, all above 30 years old, provide a model for women anxious ...
A Chinese academic stepped into prisons, mysterious places to ordinary people, with her recent applied theater project, trying to get closer to prisoners and bring something different to them.
A new series of Chinese books on the Japanese invaders' top military secrets during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1931-45) was published on Mon. The 45 book-series contains photocopies of secret Japanese files, including telegrams and minutes of ...
A discussion group reading Selected Works of Mao Zedong together has been formed on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo, where netizens pick out and post their favorite content from the book to share with others, many of whom are of younger ...
Portuguese writer Jose Luis Peixoto appeared on China Central Television's The Reader on Friday, reading from his book You Died on Me (Portuguese-edition: Morreste-me). Peixoto was inspired to share the ode to his beloved father with Chinese audiences after being ...
Armed with his cell phone and a searchlight, a man walks along a dark paved path leading to a tomb. This is not a scene from a TV drama or a film, but the content of a short video that ...
While some feel that bookstores are fading away, one Chinese bookstore has found new life by marching into rural areas and ethnic minority regions in China, bringing colorful cultural life and higher incomes to local residents.
The Beijing LGBT Center held a workshop on Thursday at Beijing Normal University for more than 100 graduate students majoring in consulting psychology so that these future consulting psychologists could better serve the LGBTQ community by learning more about it.
When people around the world welcomed the new year of 2020, none of them imagined they would spend a whole year in the shadow of the coronavirus. The rapid spread of the virus changed the way people work, socialize, dine, ...
The Tianjin Juilliard School, the first performing arts institution in China to offer a US-accredited Master of Music degree, has kicked off its graduate courses amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The graduate program brings together 39 graduate students from 11 countries ...
Many web novels about romances between two men are being adapted into TV dramas that will be shot or aired in 2021. This follows the recent trend reflecting the rise in popularity of the Boy's Love (BL) literature genre and ...
Since it hit Chinese mainland cinemas on Friday, Chinese sports documentary Touch Out has been getting rave reviews and high marks from audiences with its story about a group of young boys from poor families who are able to change ...
The Tianjin Juilliard School, the first performing arts institution in China to offer a US-accredited Master of Music degree, has kicked off its graduate courses amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The graduate program brings together 39 graduate students from 11 countries ...
Unhappy with having to pay high veterinary fees to take care of their beloved pets, Chinese pet owners are calling for the government to implement stricter regulations in the pet industry to avoid unreasonable charges. The call comes at a ...
Well-known Chinese film director and Palme d'Or winner Chen Kaige ignited discussion on Chinese social media about surrogacy after debuting a short film on Chinese variety show Everybody Stand on Sunday.
An episode of Running Man, the long-running South Korean reality show, has been removed from Chinese streaming and video sharing platform Bilibili after it caused a controversy by placing China and the island of Taiwan on equal footing in the ...
A multinational production movie Monster Hunter, adapted from a video game, has been pulled from China's cinemas after a short scene outraged netizens who called it racist and an insult to Chinese people. They called for a boycott of the ...
A Chinese magazine selected top 10 buzzwords that have gone viral on Chinese social media or reflect the major events that happened in China in 2020.
When Chinese photographer Qin Xiao began taking pictures of elderly passersby on the street to highlight and show their fashion choices to the public, he had never imagined that the project would end up changing stereotypes of seniors.
When Chinese photographer Qin Xiao began taking pictures of elderly passersby on the street to highlight and show their fashion choices to the public, he never imagined that the project would end up changing stereotypes about seniors.
The mutton presented as a gift from Mongolia was served to Chinese medical workers who fought on the frontline against coronavirus in Central China's Hubei Province on Monday.
Two members of South Korean girl band Everglow, Chinese singer Yiren and South Korean singer Sihyeon, tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday. The two are the latest COVID-19 infection cases in the South Korean entertainment industry.
The Taipei Palace Museum in the island of Taiwan has reportedly abandoned the name of the Palace Museum, but the move has drawn criticism.
With its long history as a capital city, Luoyang in Central China's Henan is a treasure house of cultural relics. Recently, more tombs built more than than 2,600 years ago have been excavated in the city. The cultural relics discovered ...
A Chinese documentary evoked tears and laughter from the audience at its premiere on Friday in Beijing with its story of a group of Chinese teenagers from poor families who change their fortunes by playing baseball.
Chinese war film The Eight Hundred, the highest-grossing film of 2020 around the world, is reportedly in the running to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
Although the pandemic has not affected online orders of false eyelashes, whether domestic or overseas, the breakdown of cross-border transportation links and even the lockdown, sometimes of a whole country, have had some impact on the industry chain of false ...
Giant panda Liang Bang gave birth to her baby cub in Japan on Sunday, grabbing the hearts of netizens in China and elsewhere around the world. This marks the first time that the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding ...
An online training center for Chinese web fiction writers has been set up, to help these writers better understand the rules of the web fiction industry and train more writers for the film and TV industry.
A misunderstanding between a female and a male student at Tsinghua University, one of China's top institutions of higherlearning that led to an accusation of sexual harassment has sparked a huge controversy about feminism on Chinese social media.
Held every November 20, the International Transgender Day of Remembrance falls on Friday in 2020. To celebrate the day, the Beijing LGBT Center will kick off an eight-day transgender culture and art festival in Beijing on Friday.
A Chinese web drama adapted from Japanese manga Hikaru no Go (lit: Hikaru's Go) is getting positive reviews from Chinese netizens, many of whom are calling it a successful adaptation.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, face masks have become a necessary everyday protective measure. However, this has lessened some people's enthusiasm to wear makeup considered half their face will be covered up. One the other hand, this has made the ...
A new Chinese drama named Hear Her was launched on video platforms on Tuesday, focusing on contemporary female dilemmas and featuring issues such as domestic violence and concerns about appearance.
Many Indians living in China gathered together in cities around the country to celebrate Diwali, one of most important festivals in India, on Saturday night.
