For Chinese urban youth, Halloween is more than just putting together the scariest outfit with a Chinese twist, whether it’s hopping vampires from 1980s Hong Kong films or supernatural beings from ...

This was the question posed to British-American film director Christopher Nolan by the Chinese podcaster Zhong Shu, real name Zhuge Yiyang, during an interview after the premiere of his new film, The ...

On the evening of October 20, 2026, Cui Jian, the “godfather of Chinese rock,” appeared at the closing concert of the 29th Beijing Music Festival (BMF), joining forces with the Beijing Symphony ...

On a drizzly August night in Shanghai, 18-year-old Zheng Chenggong steps up to the plate for his first at bat as a professional baseball player. He plays for the Changsha Want Want—one of six teams in ...

A wealthy heiress, a charismatic bandit revolutionary, and a military father trying to save his family might sound like the cast of your next Netflix binge. However, The Peking Express: The Bandits ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. The thick blanket of cloud swiftly dissipates as we cruise down south from the city of Las Palmas. “It’s the ...

This is the tale of a creature that is inseparable from Chinese New Year, and that inspired some of its most basic customs…no, not the 12 zodiac animals, but the monster literally known as 年 (nián, ...

返景入深林， 复照青苔上。 Its writer, Wang Wei, was famous for composing in the shanshui (mountains and water) genre. Fellow poet Su Shi once reflected that “There is painting in his poems, just like poetry can ...

As one of southern China’s major fire-worship ceremonies, the Torch Festival has attracted hundreds of thousands of tourists this July, drawn by the joy and good fortune it is believed to bring ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Mao Zhenhua, a college student from Changsha in central China’s Hunan province, has picked Tianshui, over 1,300 ...

It is hard to miss the historic Refosian store when strolling around Beijing’s Dashilan street, often touted as China’s oldest commercial street. Founded in 1893, the establishment is adorned with ...

At the end of March, the China premiere of the award-winning French film Anatomy of a Fall (2023) went viral for the wrong reasons. An audience gathered at Peking University to hear a panel including ...