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The new National Museum of Chinese Written Language. Photo: CFP By Xing Daiqi The preservation, display and documentation of the history of Chinese characters can now be assured with the National Museum of Chinese Written Language in Anyang, central Henan Province, opening its doors on Monday. A...

I doubt that the new National Museum of Chinese Written Language in Anyang will have a display of "skin art," but the Western fascination with Chinese character tattoos is, in an odd way, a tribute to the artistry of the bamboo brush. Except that tattoo artists are using needles instead of brushe...

People perform lion dance during the unveiling ceremony for the statue of Confucius, ancient educator and thinker Confucius (551 BC-479 BC), at Confucian Provate Secondary School in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 15, 2009. The school held the ceremony on the occasion of the celebration of 103rd...

The two major schools of Chinese martial arts, Shaolin and Wudang, have agreed to perform during the Shanghai World Expo in 2010, offering a kungfu gala for fans from around the globe.

Staff set up the "Inspiring highland路 Chinese art exhibition". Opening on November 13 at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, More than 500 artistic works about Tibet will be on show. An oil painting entitled, Spring comes to Tibet by Dong Xiwen in 1955 is on show at the National Art ...

To mark the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection, Darwin Now, a global program, has been launched by the British Council to explore the impact Darwin's legacy has had on society. In Beijing, Dar...

U.S. publisher Conde Nast International Ltd plans to launch more magazine titles in China, one of the company's top five global markets, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing Chairman Jonathan Newhouse as saying.The chairman saw strong growth of magazine business and magazine development in...

Prime View International Co, a leading electronic display provider and the world鈥檚 leading supplier of e-paper display modules, is expected to begin shipping touch-screen e-book readers in the first half of the next year and color models in the second half, according to company chairman Scott Liu, sources reported....

The 38th French Cinepanorama, organized by the Alliance Francaise of Hong Kong, is undergoing final preparations, scheduled to be held from November 27 to December 13. French Cinepanorama, one of the longest-running film festivals in Hong Kong, is set to screen over 50 recent French feature and s...

One Word Matches Ten Thousand by Liu Zhenyun, with a blurb. Photo: Guo Yingguang By Wu Ziru Including a blurb on the jacket of a book has been popular in China for almost 20 years, but recently, a group of avid blurb haters have picked up their pens to voice complaints of the up-selling strategy...