Acrobatics instructor's experiences reflect deep ties of friendship
The then-13-year-old boy from Mombasa, Kenya, knew nothing about acrobatics until he and 23 other teenagers watched a film at the Chinese embassy in Nairobi, the African nation's capital. Kavita, a budding gymnast, had just won a national competition.
More than 120 guests from home and aboard gathered at a seminar titled “Inner Child’s World, The World’s Child” on Monday in Wuyi county of Jinhua city, East China’s Zhejiang province, discussing the future development of Chinese children’s literature and opportunities for international exchange and cooperation.
BRATISLAVA — The illustrators of Chinese children's books remain among the most internationally awarded artists thanks to their consistent use of unique and traditional styles of artistic expression, according to Zuzana Jarosova, general commissioner of the Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava.
Of all the 240 items at the current exhibition China's Southern Paradise: Treasures From the Lower Yangzi Delta, at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Clarissa von Spee, the curator, has singled out one particular painting as the cover of its accompanying catalog.
The first World University Forum on Ancient Chinese Classics and Archives was recently hosted in Beijing. The forum was co-organized by the National Committee for the Compilation and Research of Ancient Chinese Classics in Higher Education Institutions, the Center for Ancient Chinese Classics and Archives of Peking University, and the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of PKU.
The Philadelphia Orchestra recently concluded their China trip, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of their first visit to China in 1973. Learn more about the stories behind that historical journey and what the orchestra members think of China's evolution.
First launched by the Beijing Dance Academy in 2019, the forum has brought together some 300 performers, scholars and educators from around the world under the theme of "Dance Culture: Inheritance and Development".
On a recent visit to China, British anthropologist and historian Alan Macfarlane and Chinese scholar Yu Shicun exchanged ideas about topics including cultural identity, "the other", and the role of time in the shaping of a civilization in a dialogue in Beijing.
The third International Forum on the Collection, Study, and Publication of Ancient Texts took place in Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, at the end of October.
Between the mid-6th century and the mid-8th century, China experienced a period of extensive and profound cultural exchange with Central and Western Asia.
For the first time since its launch in October last year, Italian Screens — New Italian Cinema Goes Abroad, a project to boost international exchange, arrived in Beijing, where it held two events last Thursday and Friday.