A newly published picture-book series of hit animated work,Yao — Chinese Folktales, has included all the eight stories presented in the animation, which combines traditional methods like ink-and-water, paper-cutting and stop-motion with updated computer graphics technologies.[Photo prov...

The Legend of the White Snake, an original ballet production by Guangzhou Ballet, will premiere in Beijing's Tianqiao Performing Arts Center in August.The Legend of the White Snake, an original ballet production by Guangzhou Ballet, will premiere in Beijing's Tianqiao Performing Arts Center...

An exhibition held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, presents a captivating showcase of more than 3,000 works created by 2,500 fresh graduates from the China Academy of Art. CHINA DAILYYouth and the future are key themes in celebration of talent, Li Yingxue reports.The garden represents a treasured co...

Therewas once among the Marshpees, a small tribe who have their hunting-grounds on the shores of the Great Lake, near the Cape of Storms, a woman whose name was Awashanks. She was rather silly and very idle. For days together she would sit doing nothing. Then she was so ugly and ill-shaped tha...

Snow-swathed Bambooby Zhu YuanzhangBent down by the snow, still not so lowTo be muddied touching the ground.The sun shall emerge at dawn the morrowUnveiling a grove still level with cloud.Zhu Yuanzhang (1328-1398), founder of the Ming Dynasty, was born into a destitute peasant family in what is now...

Long,long ago, when this old world was in its tender infancy, there was a child, named Epimetheus, who never had either father or mother; and, that he might not be lonely, another child, fatherless and motherless like himself, was sent from a far country to live with him, and be his playfellow...