Chinese Culture: Oriental Romeo and Juliet ?Butterfly Lovers to take center stage

    Western people cry for Romeo and Juliet while the Chinese weep over Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai.     Chinese composers Chen Gang and He Zhanhao have created a violin concerto based on the tragic Chinese love story Butterfly Lovers. Though it is a story also widely known in the West, the most original and popular interpretation of the story in China is a Yueju

College Students Preserve China''s Lost Art Leading Up To Beijing Olympics

As China showcases its rapid modernization at this summer's Beijing Olympics, an international group of college students is trying to preserve the country's rich heritage. They created ChinaVine, a project that places vanishing Chinese art forms and village life on the Web. Its online videos offer a glimpse of traditional shoe and kite makers, gourd carvers, woodblock painters and more, with

Rehearsal of Olympic cultural show

                                                Performers are dressed up as the Olympic mascots during a rehearsal of a show featuring the mascots in Beijing July 25,

Welcome to Mini China!

Is it possible to walk the length and breadth of China within a single day? One place you could do just that is at the Chinese Ethnic Culture Park, south of the Bird's Nest and within the Olympic Green.                                The huge

Chinese Art Is as Hot in the East as It Is in the West

  Tian Anmen, Zhang Xiaogang   "Tiananmen Square," by Zhang Xiaogang, recently sold for just over US$2.3 million. With prices for Chinese contemporary art soaring, Christie's opened its week of art auctions in Hong Kong by realizing a record-breaking US$67.9 million in its sales of Asian contemporary and Chinese 20th-century art. 　 Wealthy buyers from China and

Is It Ok to Have Fun in an Art Gallery?

  Duration: 2007.2.10- 2007.3.18Venue: B.T.A.P.Curator: Snejana Krasteva, Feng BoyiArtists: Bai Ming, Fenglin, Hu YanLan, Jin Nu, Liang Tao, Liang Yuanwei, Tang YuHan, Wang Tiantian, Xia Peng, Zhang Yi         In recent years many changes have occurred in the Chinese art scene. We have seen the rise of various trends and the emergence of numerous artists.

one world one dream

                                                     

A Cultural Symbol - China"s New Year Picture

                                      Spring Festival, China's most celebrative occasion, begins its annual felicitations with the posting of New Year pictures on the walls and windows on the 24th of the 12th month

Micro kites with vivid characters on sale

  Photo taken on March 19, 2008 shows micro kites printed with various types of facial make-up of Beijng opera at a store specializing in kite business in Weifang, east China's Shandong Province. Photo taken on March 19, 2008 shows micro kites printed with characters in the Water Margin (one of the four Chinese classical novels) at a store

Top 10 most famous grottos in China (2)

Binglin Temple grotto Binglin Temple Grottoes located 80 km southwest of Lanzhou, is on the Silk Road cultural treasures. When you take boats visited the vast expanse of ocean, and sky after the Liujiaxia Reservoir, Reservoir west of the cliff, you can see the Binglin Temple Grottoes. Xiangtangshan grotto Xiangtangshan Caves Monastery in Handan City, Hebei new urban built in the Northern Qi

Total: 151 Items This is 7 Page( 10 Items/Page) Result Page: 16 Pages First Previous Next Last