Clearing the air
2011-08-25 07:44:56
Zheng Xinmiao, curator of the Palace Museum in Beijing, responds to the 10 scandals the museum has been involved in recently.
A peek into world of basement treasures
2011-08-25 07:44:56
The Palace Museum's vast display of paintings, calligraphy and ceramics actually account for less than 1 percent of its collection.
Careless caretaker
2011-08-25 07:44:56
Management issues are said to be the root cause of a series of scandals that have plagued the Palace Museum in Beijing.
New beats for old art
2011-08-12 08:18:00
While traditionalists frequently lament the threat to ancient Chinese art forms, local rock heroes are spearheading their own reinvention of these arts.
Threads to the past
2011-07-07 09:01:51
The Shanghai Sewing Machine Shop, once renowned for the sale of one of the country's oldest brand of sewing machines, Butterfly, reopens.
A high-life cuppa
2011-06-22 07:55:37
Teo, tee, thea, herbata, chai, cha ... they are all words that refer to tea, in different languages.
Dry inks filled with feeling
2011-06-10 07:56:44
A US-based Chinese artist scales new heights with his landscape paintings.
When going green is music to the ears
2011-06-10 07:56:44
As a young woman plays a palm-sized bamboo flute, a lively chirping of birds fills the room and guides audiences into an enchanting bamboo grove filling the huge screen on stage.
To sing is glorious
2011-06-10 07:56:44
A CCTV talent show features three foreigners with a yen for Chinese songs that recall the fervor of the revolution.
Varnishing the truth
2011-06-09 07:57:55
Wu Dingwu lifts and presses a U-shaped handle attached to an exquisitely carved wooden ox, and it starts clip-clopping forward.
