The eighth episode of South Korean TV series Melancholia shows Yut, Xiangqi and Weiqi as South Korean traditional games confusing the audience about the origins of these ancient board games. Actually, Xiangqi, Chinese chess, and Weiqi, known in the West as Go, were both invented in China thousands of years ago and have been played by many generations until now.

China's new state-owned cultural enterprise Bauhinia Culture Group is attending the Guangzhou Cultural Industry Fair 2021 for the very first time, which runs from Saturday to Monday in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province.

Fans will this week get their hands on the latest Halo video game, as Microsoft marks 20 years of the franchise that turned its Xbox console into a hit.

British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature 2021, received his medal in London on Monday.

After learning about the life of the master poet who lived 1,300 years ago in the historical documentary Li Bai on CCTV-9, many young Chinese viewers have taken to social media to talk about pursuing their dreams.

The award-winning theater and film actor Antony Sher has died aged 72 after suffering from cancer, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) announced on Friday.

As the 1,035-kilometer-long China-Laos Railway officially went into operation on Friday, the train, which connects Kumming in Southwest China's Yunnan Province and the Laos capital Vientiane, gives travelers the chance to not only look at breathtaking landscapes, but also observe the ancient and hidden villages that can be found alongside the railway.

A centuries-old sculpture of two Hindu gods was re-installed at its temple in the Nepali capital Kathmandu on Saturday, nearly 40 years after it was stolen and later emerged in the US.

The small theater at the Cairo Opera House seemed packed as the audiences were watching a group of short films starting with China's Poem for a Distant Village, which is one of the 22 works contesting in the International Short Film Competition in the 43rd edition of the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF).

What is it like when China's traditional opera elements meet pop music? Music show Singing with Legends, which aired its final episode of its third season on China's Dragon TV on Sunday night, gave a clear answer through performances by duos made up of young, middle-aged and veteran singers.

A performance season featuring outstanding dramas from across the country kicked off at the Beijing Comedy Theater on Thursday night with the opening show Dawn 1949.

The Today Art Museum in Beijing kicked off a dialogue for its first resident artist Yao Qingmei on Saturday. Featuring key words like "public intersection," "theaters" and "rehearsal," the dialogue attended by Yao, who spent years living and working in France, art critic Yu Miao and the museum's vice president Yan Yan, took aim at the artist's performance art.

After six years of waiting, Chinese mainland moviegoers will finally have the chance to watch South Korean film Oh! Moon-hee in cinemas on Friday. The film's release is an obvious signal of improved cultural communication between China and South Korea amid the China-South Korea Cultural Exchange Year in 2021.

China's National Cultural Heritage Administration on Wednesday published a report about five Chinese archaeological sites and their significant achievements, an important demonstration of the diversity and integration of Chinese civilization amid the 100th anniversary of the birth of modern Chinese archaeology.

A sculpture of a golden bridge made for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) went on display in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province on Wednesday. The huge bridge is set to conduct an international tour of BRI countries.

Fouchika Junior adjusts her headphones, flicks a slider and seamlessly drops the next tune: One of Tunisia's rare female DJs, she is helping other women break into a male-dominated world.

Cambodian cookbook titled The Taste of Angkor has been distinguished as the "Best Asian Cookbook" at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2021 in France, the country's foreign ministry announced in a press statement on Wednesday.

Many Brazilian businessmen are leaving South America to invest in the wine sector in Portugal, seeking to fulfill a dream, a better quality product, and even easier access to the European and international market.

Henry Mailu has for many years grown mangoes as his principal crop on his farm located in Makueni County in southeastern Kenya.

The National Ballet of China (NBC) will perform Onegin, based on a novel by Russian author Alexander Pushkin, at Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center in mid-December, giving ballet lovers the opportunity to enjoy a large stage performance showing Russian life in the 1820s.

China's National Cultural Heritage Administration on Wednesday published a report about five Chinese archaeological sites and their significant achievements, an important demonstration of the diversity and integration of Chinese civilization amid the 100th anniversary of the birth of modern Chinese archaeology

Six Irish films will be screened in Beijing, where moviegoers can enjoy the spectacular scenery as well as the unique culture of this Atlantic isle located at 53 degrees north latitude. The movies - Brooklyn, Sing Street, Rosie, Zoo, The Secret Scripture and The Lobster - will be shown at the China National Film Museum from Saturday as part of its International Film Screening Series: Films of Ireland hosted by the Capital Star Art Film Theaters League and the museum.

David Dalaithngu, the Indigenous Australian actor who mesmerized audiences in his breakout movie Walkabout and was hailed as one of the country's greatest artists, has died at the age of 68, four years after being diagnosed with lung cancer.

A stone tablet dating back to the Wanli Period of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) was unearthed in a village in North China's Hebei Province, local authorities said Tuesday.

French-American dancer, singer, Resistance member and rights activist Josephine Baker became the first black woman to enter France's Pantheon mausoleum of outstanding historical figures on Tuesday, nearly half a century after her death.

The 43rd edition of the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) opened on Friday evening at Egypt's Cairo Opera House with the participation of about 100 films from over 60 countries.

From young Chinese athletes who are competing and winning honors for the country to ordinary young people who serve in the army to protect the motherland, video series Young Forever produced by China's Hunan Satellite TV has gained popularity among young audiences by delivering positive energy and a fighting spirit.

New Chinese movie Schemes In Antiques gathers a group of people who fight to protect a national treasure, a jade Buddha head from the Tang Dynasty (618-907). Set for release on Friday, the film is ready to fire the first shot for the New Year movie season in the Chinese mainland.

After receiving a fire call in Istanbul, Turkey's most crowded city, it usually takes two minutes for the firefighters to get ready, board their fire trucks and set out on the road.

Top US fashion designer Virgil Abloh, artistic director of Louis Vuitton's menswear collection, died Sunday aged 41 after battling cancer for several years, the fashion and luxury house's French owners LVMH announced.

A Hong Kong TV production team spent three months filming at 10 locations in the Chinese mainland to introduce the regions' poverty alleviation efforts to the city's residents.

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.

In mid-November, a zoo in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province, had an unconventional book exhibition displaying a pile of paintings created by orangutans to arouse people's awareness of the endangered species' plight.

Seventy-year-old American Stephen D. Allee's total immersion in the Chinese language and culture reminds people of a famous Confucius quote: "I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge, I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there."

The Chinese version of the French musical based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet will take the stage at Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center from December 24.

The Palace Museum in Beijing published on its official website on Tuesday a proposal to promote the joint protection of Afghan cultural heritage, signed by 21 famous academics from China and abroad. The proposal calls for international attention and support to the present situation of Afghan cultural heritage and local cultural experts.

Nine button-like ornaments made of pure gold that are believed to be from the Qin Dynasty (221BC-206BC) have recently been unearthed at an ancient tomb in Xianyang, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

Following the new Venom movie, Marvel's future in the Chinese mainland looks unclear for its poor reputation caused by the shackles of "political correctness," as it has been more than 2 years since Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) released its last movie in the mainland, Spider-Man: Far From Home.

"What was Chloe Zhao thinking?" Many Chinese netizens asked this question on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo on Thursday after a scene in Zhao's new Marvel movie Eternals was published on Chinese social media platforms.

Justin Bieber, Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo are leading a splashy class of pop stalwarts and newbies nominated for 2021's Grammy awards.

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 people of his motherland, which is full of one-sided negative news about its neighboring country.

Twenty years ago, when Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone premiered in theaters, the whole world was crazy for the fresh and magical Hogwarts School created by writer J.K. Rowling. However, when the main cast reunited to celebrate the blockbuster's 20th anniversary last week, where was the franchise's mother Rowling? She was not even invited, or you could say she was expelled because of "political correctness."

A new exhibition featuring over 60 Chinese paintings from artist Chen Tian kicked off at the Guangzhou Book Center in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province, on Thursday. With three sections covering his landscape series and lotus series, the new show hosted by Highland Culture carries the artist's hope of returning to China's traditional culture.

A new design competition in China opened for online submission for designs using recycled materials like plastic bottles and soft drink cans. The submission period is set to end on January 12, 2022. According to the organizers, which include the Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation, The Amazing Bottle Recycled Materials Design Awards aim to promote creative ideas and designs to form new trends toward a better life.

Mount Qomolangma, commonly known in the West as Mount Everest, is the ultimate destination for many climbers around the world like Xia Boyu, who lost both legs after giving his sleeping bag to a teammate while climbing the mountain.

An art exhibition showing China's emerging artists' reflections on life in the post-pandemic age has opened in Beijing.

New Chinese TV series Psychologist debuted on China's streaming site Youku on Tuesday. The show is adapted from the 2007 novel of the same name by well-known Chinese writer Bi Shumin, who has been very active in observing mental health problems for decades. But can this story written 14 years ago cure people's anxiety today?

The hot spring town of Shirahama in Wakayama Prefecture, southwest Japan, is famous not only for its white beaches, but also for a special animal family that lives in the local leisure park Adventure World - giant pandas from China.

Chinese martial arts, or kung fu, conjures up an image of the iconic movie star Bruce Lee, whose superb fighting skills were popularized throughout the world.

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 society.

After the huge success of the Korean War-themed blockbuster The Battle at Lake Changjin, a series of movies and TV dramas about the war have gone into production as stories of the Chinese People's Volunteers Army has become a new favorite resource for filmmakers to mine.

The Donkey King, Pakistan's highest grossing animated film, debuted Friday in the Chinese mainland cinemas. With its Pakistani dancing and singing characters, the new animation hopes to impress Chinese audiences and open a door for Pakistani films to enter the Chinese mainland market.

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 domestic movies to serve China's aim of building a powerful country in terms of culture.

The Port-au-Prince international jazz festival, traditionally held in late January, has been postponed indefinitely due to gang violence that has plagued the Haitian capital for months on end, event organizers said Monday.

The Futian Art Museum in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province, is hosting an exhibition for fine art education. The exhibition features more than 100 artworks across three sections ranging from works created over the last century to pieces remembering the Chinese people's efforts in fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Beatles: Get Back, the eagerly awaited new Disney+ documentary from Peter Jackson, aims to dispel persistent myths about the Fab Four's breakup, offering a more positive take on their final months as a band.

Disgraced US movie star Kevin Spacey will have to pay almost $31 million to the production company that made the series House of Cards in which he starred until he was fired over allegations of sexual harassment, according to legal documents made public Monday.

Oscar-winning Japanese costume designer Emi Wada, who had created unique clothing for a number of world famous Chinese films such as Hero (2002) by director Zhang Yimou, has passed away at the age of 84, according to media reports citing her family on Sunday.

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 of domestic movies to serve the country's aim of building a powerful country in terms of culture.

Tour guide Phuc Lai Chi has been counting down the days until travelers return to the white-sand beaches and thick tropical jungle of Vietnam's Phu Quoc, a once-poor fishing island pushing to be Asia's next holiday hot spot as pandemic restrictions ease.

Few predicted that the small budget Chinese suspense/comedy movie Be Somebody would perform so well in terms of word of mouth and box office during the post-National-Day movie season in the Chinese mainland, especially considering the near silence surrounding Hollywood and overseas blockbusters released around the same time such as US epic sci-fi movie Dune.

A new documentary on the process that British science historian and biochemist Joseph Needham wrote about ancient Chinese science and technological developments debuted on CCTV-10 on Saturday.

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.

Dancing the long drum dance of China's Yao ethnic minority, along with thousands of Chinese students, Zambian Donald Lusambo felt happy.

China's Huangshan Tourism Development Co Ltd, a tour operator of tourism destination Mount Huangshan, held an online event to promote local culture and tourism among New Yorkers on Friday evening.

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology has been extensively applied in a national park in Northwest China to track snow leopards inhabiting the region.

Turkey's tourism agencies launched on Friday an early booking campaign aimed at providing "attractive and affordable prices" for the 2022 tourism season.

The documentary A Day of Trans focusing on different generations of transgender persons in China, directed by Yennefer Fang, a Chinese transgender independent filmmaker who worked as Second Assistant Director in WWII-theme movie The Eight Hundred, was released in Beijing on Thursday. The film depicts the changes of four Chinese transgender individuals across generations.

High-definition live recordings of two Chinese classics are set to hit streaming in the UK and the US due to efforts from ATW Culture and its New Live Screening Series.

It seems it must be the only right move that Disney made: Asian superhero movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was not released in the Chinese mainland yet, because even if mainland audiences had been given the opportunity to see it in cinemas, it very likely would have received the same reception as Disney's Mulan, a 2020 work aimed at Chinese audiences that met its Waterloo in the country.

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, Chinese film observers said on Thursday.

Six years after Adele's last blockbuster exploration of heartache and loss, everyone's favorite ugly-cry balladeer is back, channeling her vocal fireworks to lay bare the emotional torture - and catharsis - of divorce.

It is a right decision that Marvel Studios' first Asian superhero movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was not released in the Chinese mainland, because even if mainland audiences had the chance to see it in cinemas, it very likely would have received the same reception as Mulan, a 2020 work aimed at Chinese audiences that met its Waterloo in the region.

Foreign tourists have been welcomed back to India after pandemic travel bans but intrepid travelers will have to brave the intense pollution season to visit the country's most famous attraction.

Joe Exotic is behind bars but Netflix has forged ahead with Tiger King 2, a follow-up to the early-pandemic TV phenomenon, which has already spawned a legal battle before its release Wednesday.

The nomad was thirsty, and the journey into the Somali desert would be long and taxing.

Six designers and scholars from China and Thailand gathered online for a webinar for creative designs on Friday. The Creative People Talk: China-Thailand Creative Industry Webinar, hosted by the Chinese Embassy in Thailand, China's Central Academy of Fines Arts (CAFA) and the Creative Economy Agency of Thailand, covered three sections: jewelry design education, commercial value of designers' brands, and traditional ideas and contemporary design.

The first full Dutch version of Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Romeo-and-Juliet love story masterpiece in the country's classical literature, has recently hit the bookstores in the Netherlands following 13 years of hard work by three Dutch sinologists and translators.

The film King Richard plots the improbable rise of Serena and Venus Williams, from training on crumbling, gang-riddled Compton tennis courts to becoming all-time sporting greats.

A South Korean drama Squid Game has drawn worldwide attention as it vividly depicts the cruelty of capitalistic society through children's games played by a group of debt-ridden underdogs for money.

The music video for Chinese singer Jackson Yee's "Together for a Shared Future," also the official motto for the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, was released on Monday. In the video produced by Beijing Radio & Television Station, Yee, a popular star among young people, takes viewers on a tour to show the enthusiasm of Chinese people as they prepare for the upcoming global sports event.

Culture is in and cultural design is very in. A new design contest hosted by Beijing's Dongcheng Bureau of Culture and Tourism and Perfect World Investment & Holding Group aims to discover young promising designs by college students and turn these designs into a reality.

Peru's bullfights, which are about as popular as soccer in the South American nation, made their much-anticipated return this weekend to the rings of Lima after a lengthy pandemic-induced hiatus.

Internationally acclaimed author Wilbur Smith died at his home in South Africa on Saturday after a decades-long career in writing, his office said. He was 88.

Parasite, the 2019 South Korean black comedy thriller film that won four awards at the 92nd Academy Awards, has been adapted into a stage play by a Chinese production team and will be launched around China in January 2022. Chinese audiences have already begun purchasing tickets.

More Chinese TV dramas are looking to incorporate traditional Chinese culture, including Marvelous Women, which started airing on Monday and is colored by Chinese kesi, a traditional silk tapestry weaving technique.

US entertainment giant Disney said Wednesday its flagship streaming service grew slower than expected in the recently ended quarter as pandemic headwinds have begun to bite.

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.

Benin on Wednesday welcomed back nearly 30 royal treasures looted from the West African state during France's colonial rule more than 130 years ago.

Israeli and US archaeologists found how the Assyrians built and operated the world's oldest-known siege ramp located in southern Israel, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) said Tuesday.

Has Spot gone missing? Need to track down a lost gerbil? While Jim Carrey's Ace Ventura may be fictional, the job of pet detective is quite a real one in China, where they are known as xunchongzhe or "pet searchers."

In April 2020, a 72-year-old lady knocked at the door of the home of retired police officer and professional sketch artist Lin Yuhui in the hopes he would draw a portrait of her father who sacrificed his life 71 years ago during the Korean War's Battle of Changjin Lake in 1950, not long after her birth.

Nigeria's elite sipped champagne and splashed thousands of dollars on contemporary paintings at a fair in Lagos this week, an early step into the international art world for Africa's most populous nation.

A mountain of discarded clothing including Christmas sweaters and ski boots cuts a strange sight in Chile's Atacama, the driest desert in the world, which is increasingly suffering from pollution created by fast fashion.

Belfast, a hot favorite to become the first Oscar best picture winner made during the pandemic, was inspired by the "other lockdown" of Northern Ireland's Troubles, its writer-director Kenneth Branagh said Tuesday.

Two diamond bracelets once belonging to Marie Antoinette and imbued with her "glamour, glory and drama" according to Christie's auction house, sold for more than $8 million on Tuesday.

Chinese netizens sent their best wishes to Canadian singer Celine Dion after news of the star's poor health began trending on Chinese social media on Wednesday.

Chinese Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan opened a WeChat public account 100 days ago, reaching more than 750,000 followers on Tuesday.

The ongoing Chengdu Biennale is displaying hundreds of artworks across eight themed sections and 17 parallel exhibitions at the Chengdu Museum in Southwest China's Sichuan Province.