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China Marks First Cultural Heritage Day

Folk artists perform a section of a Chinese traditional wedding during an event to mark China's first Cultural Heritage Day on June 10, 2006 in Changchun of Jilin Province, China. The Chinese government has established a national Cul [...]

Posted On : Mar, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

China raises profile of Dalai Lama rival Panchen Lama

It raises the profile of China's rival to Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, whom China considers a dangerous separatist. The Chinese government chose Gyaincain Norbu to be the Panchen Lama in 1995. But he is not widel [...]

Posted On : Mar, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Wen warns of challenges as China welcomes new year

"In 2010, China will face a more complicated situation, both at home and abroad," the state news agency Xinhua paraphrased Wen as saying, in remarks carried in major newspapers. People must "keep a sober mind and an e [...]

Posted On : Feb, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

China celebrates Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. The festival is a time for family reunions and eating moon-cakes. This traditional festival is being celebrated this year on Saturday. Early [...]

Posted On : Oct, 05 2009 | Comments : 0

China Cultural Week starts from 28th

Ministry of Culture and the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China will celebrate the ‘China Cultural Week’ here from September 28th at Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA). The programmes of the cultural week [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 2009 | Comments : 0

China Remembered - Turandot at the Forbidden City

The hosting of Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Turandot” at the Forbidden City in Beijing in 1998 was a landmark occasion for both the city, and China. Although we weren’t to know it at the time, it laid the groundwork fo [...]

Posted On : Aug, 21 2009 | Comments : 0

The Festival of China in Washington kicks off

A Chinese dancer performs at the opening ceremony of the Festival of China, an unprecedented culture event cosponsored by China and the United States, in the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington October 1, 2005. The Festival of [...]

Posted On : Jul, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

Cultural fests in India, China

A Festival of India will be held in China and a reciprocal Festival of China in India in 2010 with the aim "to promote mutual awareness and understanding of the rich cultural heritage of each country". The Memorandum of Under [...]

Posted On : Apr, 22 2009 | Comments : 0

China Folk Culture Villages

As a famous country in the east of the world, China is a big and united family made up of 56 ethnic groups. Geographically speaking, they are distributed in different parts of China with the resulting difficulty of experiencing each ethni [...]

Posted On : Apr, 21 2009 | Comments : 0

China's Year of the Ox not so bullish

BEIJING -- China welcomed the arrival Monday of the Year of the Ox with fireworks-filled celebrations, but the country's economic worries have already cast the new year in a more sober light.Millions of Chinese gave a boisterous farewell to [...]

Posted On : Jan, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

Korea, Japan and China Hold Culture Summit

The culture ministers from Korea, Japan and China met in Jeju on Thursday. The ministers discussed ways to exchange arts and cultural programs, protect cultural assets in East Asia and create cooperative arts programs such as the opera comp [...]

Posted On : Dec, 26 2008 | Comments : 0

Snow wonder The amazing giant ice sculptures at China's cool...

These impressive ice sculptures are part of a display for the upcoming Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival.The festival officially begins on January 5, when 800,000 tourists are expected to visit the freezing city in northern China. [...]

Posted On : Dec, 24 2008 | Comments : 0

Austrian musical "Empress Sissi" staged in China

Musical "Empress Sissi" is staged in Nantong, east China's Jiangsu Province, Nov. 7, 2008. The Austrian musical is on an itinerant tour in China and will be performed in Beijing, capital of China, Shanghai in east China and seve [...]

Posted On : Nov, 10 2008 | Comments : 0

China sends festival greetings, Taiwan songs from moon

China broadcast greetings and two Taiwanese songs from its first moon probe on Sunday, to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival when families gather to enjoy the bright autumn moon. The Chang'e-1 satellite, named after a lonely goddess who liv [...]