The Lunar New Year is the most festive of all Chinese holidays, with family reunion as the centerpiece, somewhat akin to Thanksgiving and Christmas rolled into one.
Warm family reunions, a table of delicious food, fireworks - ah, China's Spring Festival, which kicks off in earnest on Feb 7, the eve of the Lunar New Year, and continues into the following week.
Xian Zhang is the first woman to be appointed principal guest conductor with one of the BBC's orchestras, the National Orchestra of Wales.
The heat rises as the galloping gourmet travels west in China. Chuan cuisine of Sichuan province and its southwestern neighbor, Yunnan, uses copious amounts of China's only native spice, the tongue-numbing prickly ash berry known to the world as Sichuan peppercorn.
A new six-part documentary series that focuses on ancient Chinese history has started on BBC 2 in the United Kingdom.
Song Yige's paintings may not be cheerful, but her deeply emotional depictions of the modern world are certainly powerful.
Even foreigners who know little about China see the giant panda as a symbol of the Middle Kingdom. So what often disappoints the Chinese is that best-known panda character in the world of animation, from the Oscar-nominated Kung Fu Panda franchise, is thoroughly American.
DreamWorks Animation released the music of its upcoming film Kung Fu Panda 3 ahead of the movie.
Technologies work wonders. A generation ago, who would have thought that anyone could launch a talk show and win millions of viewers?
The subject of family comes up quite often in conversation - it may be asked out of politeness, you may be explaining your situation to a new lover, or perhaps just gossiping with other members of your kin.
A large amount of jadeware recently unearthed in Central China could prove essential to establishing the evolution of ancient styles and techniques.
Before the excavation in November that led to the discovery of about 240 jade pieces, archaeologists had unearthed 406 jade pieces in sites related to Shijiahe culture.
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