With more than 30 Best Actress awards to her name, Gong Li is regarded by many as the best and most influential actress in China. She starred in three of the four Chinese-language films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, and was chosen as head of the jury...

Guan Moye (管谟业), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (莫言), is a Chinese novelist and short-story writer famous for his imaginative and humanistic fiction, which were widely popular in the 1980s. In 2012, Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, bringing him a second round of fame.To We...

Inheriting his family's renowned legacy for making dough figurines, Lang Jiaziyu is injecting new creativity and cultural elements into the craft, ensuring its popularity stays forever young, Meng Wenjie reports.Dough figurines Lang Jiaziyu made based on the Chinese animated short film series Ya...

Jackie Chan is undoubtedly the most renowned Chinese actor in the world. After first establishing his martial arts prowess in his native Hong Kong and then Southeast Asia, he took his massive success in Hollywood.Jackie Chen is famed for bringing humor to kung fu movies and, over the course of appea...

Guangzhou resident Liu Hao has completed nearly 6,000 oracle bone inscriptions in the past 10 or so years. (Photo: CHINA DAILY)In the eyes of a layperson, carving oracle bone inscriptions might seem quite a boring job, as it is slow and meticulous.But Liu Hao greatly enjoys doing the work.Liu says d...

Bruce Leewas a Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor whose career spanned Hong Kong and the United States. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy drawing from different combat disciplines that is often credited with paving the way for modern mixed martial arts (MM...