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As the 30th World Book Day approached, Elhomosany Hesham Ramzy, a 29-year-old Egyptian student at Shanxi University, found himself wandering through the aisles of Xinhua Nangong Bookstore in Taiyuan, Shanxi province.
In the reception hall at the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco, 16-year-old Eshaan Nair, in his white kung fu costume with dragon embroidery, demonstrated martial arts techniques honed over seven years of dedicated practice.
A shared belief in Mazu, the revered goddess of the sea, drew thousands of people, including many from Taiwan, on Sunday to celebrate her birth in Fujian province, despite heightened cross-Strait tensions.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced the inscription of 74 new documentary heritage items in its Memory of the World Register, including three submissions from China: the Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng, the Steles of Shaolin Temple (566-1990), and Trilingual Inscription.
The United Nations this week launched its 16th Chinese Language Day series — "Poetic China: Rhymes and Romance" — at UN headquarters, offering an immersive cultural experience that blends Chinese tea culture, calligraphy and poetry.
Cultural policymakers and experts from China and Malaysia are now crafting an action plan for protecting and promoting the lion dance, a tradition that has leaped across borders and generations.
China is my second home, one that bears my dreams and heartfelt memories, Vietnamese student Liu Shixuan (Chinese pinyin) told China News Network.
The inaugural Beijing Culture Forum Salon kicked off at the Divine Music Administration of the Temple of Heaven on Thursday, with the theme of Dialogue: Protection and Inheritance of Cultural Heritage.
At the People's Hospital in the border county of Hekou, southwest China's Yunnan Province, a bilingual doctor switches fluently between Chinese and Vietnamese, occasionally soothing patients with phrases in the local Yunnan dialect. Known by her Chinese name Chen Shiying, she has become a renowned neurologist on the China-Vietnam border.
The China Pavilion at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, Japan, opened on Sunday as the expo began welcoming visitors for its monthslong run, striking notes that well echo the message delivered a day earlier by Japanese Emperor Naruhito: a sustainable future for mankind.
With its geographical closeness to China and centuries of cultural exchange, Vietnam has become one of the largest Asian markets for Chinese dramas, or C-dramas.
The mysteries of Hongshan culture have laid dormant for more than 5,000 years at the Niuheliang archaeological site in Chaoyang, Northeast China's Liaoning province.
As Kenya makes efforts toward advancing modernization, the government looks forward to learning from China's best practices, says a senior Kenyan government official.
The Beijing Library was selected for Time magazine's The World's 100 Greatest Places of 2025, which marks the first time a cultural landmark in Beijing has received this prestigious honor.
This year's program will focus on commemorating the 120th anniversary of Chinese cinema through the launch of the "120 Years Applause: Chinese Film Special Screening".
Experiencing tea picking and processing in east China's Zhejiang Province on Sunday, a tourist from the UK said Britons generally prefer drinking black tea with milk and sugar. Yet, at home, he enjoys drinking Chinese green tea.
The first batch of aid supplies from the Chinese government arrived at Yangon International Airport in Myanmar on Monday after a 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on Friday
Two statues of the Chinese sea goddess Mazu departed from Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport on Saturday, boarding Xiamen Airlines flight MF881, were flown to the island of Taiwan for cultural exchange.
The four-day 2025 China Science Fiction Convention kicked off on Friday in Beijing, where the China Science Fiction Research Center released the 2025 China Science Fiction Industry Report.
The Beijing Library in the capital's Tongzhou district has recently been named one of TIME Magazine's 100 World's Greatest Places to Visit in 2025.
Fudan University's decision to slash its humanities enrollments by up to half and expand its technology-focused programs has sparked a fierce academic debate about the value of humanities subjects in the era of booming artificial intelligence.
The Chinese path to modernization breaks the preconceived logic that equates modernization with Westernization, offering the world, particularly developing countries, an entirely new development paradigm, said Nguyen Minh Hoan, head of the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, in an interview with China News Network.
American rap superstar Travis Scott is set to bring his record-breaking Circus Maximus World Tour to China, with a performance scheduled in Sanya, Hainan province, on Nov 1.
In a world where globalization is increasingly under threat and nationalism is on the rise, emeritus professor Robert Chard from the University of Oxford, recently offered a refreshing perspective "Cool China" to address the issue.
Once deemed overshadowed by foreign productions, Chinese animation is now experiencing a surge in popularity, especially among younger audiences.
"There was only one road to cross from the western Mentougou district to downtown Beijing, with a large mountain pass on the west side of the road," said An.Zuo, the manager, said that in the past two years, most of the visitors from Beijing had got to know Fahai Temple and its murals.
"Chinese modernization has not only driven China's economic and social transformation but also provided the world with an alternative development model distinct from traditional Western paradigms, offering fresh ideas, new opportunities, and possibilities for global development," said Kho King Kee, president of the Center for New Inclusive Asia at the Second Wuyi Forum.
Chinese modernization offers a unique development model that integrates economic growth, social equity, and sustainable progress, scholars said at a forum on Saturday.
It only took the Chinese animation movie Ne Zha 2 six days after its March 13 opening in Malaysia to gross over 22 million ringgit ($4.97 million). The huge earnings have made it the highest-grossing film from China in the Malaysian box office, according to the social media post of TGV Cinemas, one of Malaysia's biggest cinema chains.
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