Rural photographer captures life's farewell moments

Exhibition zooms in on cultural heritage

A photo capturing traditional wooden house construction in rural areas of Guangxi. "I was deeply moved by the wisdom of these hardworking people," she says, adding that her work being shortlisted for recommendation is not only a recognition of her efforts but also a motivation for her to continue using the power of photography to promote the transmission and development …

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Exhibition zooms in on cultural heritage

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A photo capturing traditional wooden house construction in rural areas of Guangxi. "I was deeply moved by the wisdom of these hardworking people," she says, adding that her work being shortlisted for recommendation is not only a recognition of her efforts but also a motivation for her to continue using the power of photography to promote the transmission and development …

Cultural Heritage Traditional Cultural House Liang Wooden Zhong

2 months, 1 week ago

The Magic of Animation: How a Chinese Game's Ending Captivates the World

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The animated finale of Black Myth: Wukong, Unfinished, showcases the unique animation style of the classic Chinese lianhuanhua (palm-sized comic books). The director, Yang Tingmu, meticulously blends traditional Chinese techniques with modern animation, resulting in a visually captivating and emotionally resonant conclusion.

Culture Art Animation Traditional Media

2 months, 1 week ago

The Magic of Chinese Animation: How a Game's Ending Captivated the World

China Daily

The animated finale of Black Myth: Wukong, Unfinished, showcases the unique blend of Chinese culture and animation. The director Yang Tingmu, inspired by traditional Chinese art forms like lianhuanhua and mural paintings, creates a visually striking and emotionally resonant ending that resonates with audiences worldwide.

Culture Storytelling Animation Traditional Art

2 months, 2 weeks ago

30 works win special praise at ICH film and photo show in Zhejiang

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The exhibition concluded on Friday. Lan Jing, director of the Center for Ethnic and Folk Literature and Art Development, says intangible cultural heritage films and photos play a vital role in recording and disseminating ICH. The works can transcend the limits of time and space for the public to understand the lineage of these heritage projects, appreciate their spiritual values, …

Ich Lan Works Win

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Japanese View of Xinjiang: A Journey Through History and Culture

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Japanese diplomats and residents alike are enjoying a photo exhibition in Japan that showcases the real Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. The exhibition features stunning images of the region's natural beauty, historical landmarks, and vibrant culture. Visitors can experience Xinjiang firsthand through the captivating photos, which aim to deepen understanding and foster appreciation for the region's unique culture and history.

Law Culture History Tourism

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Experts discuss intl exchanges of traditional Chinese culture in Wuxi

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Participants of the International City Image Communication Forum pose for a group photo. The International City Image Communication Forum took place in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, on Sept 25 to discuss the creative transformation of Chinese civilization and the international exchanges of traditional Chinese culture. In order to improve Wuxi's global communication capabilities, the city has set up the Wuxi City …

Communication International Wuxi Chinese Culture

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Staging Africa through its own lens in Shanghai

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Marvelous Realism, a group exhibition of contemporary African photography is on view at Fotografiska in Shanghai until Dec 1, 2024. The show, co-presented by Fotografiska and the London-based KT Wong Foundation, was founded on an awareness of how the rich, diverse contemporary art and cultural scenes in Africa have yet to be discovered to the Chinese public. But I have …

China Africa Chinese

3 months, 4 weeks ago

Inspiration from the past, vision for the future

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Elyn MacInnis Mountain of memories: Kuliang's legacy brings East and West together China's Kuliang, nestled in the mountains and shrouded in a light mist, has produced countless stories that span time and distance. The small town in East China's Fujian province, once a popular summer retreat from the late 1800s until 1949, attracted many foreigners who lived in harmony with …

Mountain Peter Fujian Kuliang Macinnis Vision China

3 months, 4 weeks ago

Inspiration from the past, vision for the future

China Daily

Elyn MacInnis Mountain of memories: Kuliang's legacy brings East and West together China's Kuliang, nestled in the mountains and shrouded in a light mist, has produced countless stories that span time and distance. The small town in East China's Fujian province, once a popular summer retreat from the late 1800s until 1949, attracted many foreigners who lived in harmony with …

China Mountain Peter Fujian Kuliang Macinnis

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Wuxi's new museum of city history takes a journalistic turn

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Xue working as a journalist. CHINA DAILY Key to success Studying for a fine arts major in college in 1991, Xue set his sights on becoming a news photographer. After six years in the graphic department, Xue became a reporter in 1999, and began documenting everything happening in the city, with a firm belief that media should serve its role …

Wuxi Xue

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Wuxi's new museum of city history takes a journalistic turn

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Xue working as a journalist. CHINA DAILY Key to success Studying for a fine arts major in college in 1991, Xue set his sights on becoming a news photographer. After six years in the graphic department, Xue became a reporter in 1999, and began documenting everything happening in the city, with a firm belief that media should serve its role …

Wuxi Xue

5 months ago

Hundred Flowers confirms culture is hot ticket

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Zhang Yimou wins the Best Director in Chengdu on Sunday. CHINA DAILY Insider insights Aside from the award ceremony, a range of activities including themed forums and film screenings were held from Friday to Sunday as a platform for industry insiders to exchange ideas on the future of the Chinese film industry. Lu Shaoyang, president of the working committee of …

Film Chinese

5 months ago

Hundred Flowers confirms culture is hot ticket

China Daily

Zhang Yimou wins the Best Director in Chengdu on Sunday. CHINA DAILY Insider insights Aside from the award ceremony, a range of activities including themed forums and film screenings were held from Friday to Sunday as a platform for industry insiders to exchange ideas on the future of the Chinese film industry. Lu Shaoyang, president of the working committee of …

Film Chinese

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Critics praise moving biographical film

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A scene in Father Far Away, a film that recounts the story of a Shanghai doctor who devoted over four decades to serving locals in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region through the perspective of his daughter. Father Far Away, a film adapted from the life story of Jiang Wanfu, a Shanghai doctor dedicated to helping locals in the Xinjiang Uygur …

Film Xinjiang Moving Biographical Biographical Movie

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Critics praise moving biographical film

China Daily

A scene in Father Far Away, a film that recounts the story of a Shanghai doctor who devoted over four decades to serving locals in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region through the perspective of his daughter. Father Far Away, a film adapted from the life story of Jiang Wanfu, a Shanghai doctor dedicated to helping locals in the Xinjiang Uygur …

Film Xinjiang

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Kids could be winners of rural vitalization

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Students pose for a photo at a school in Haoyuan village. I'm in Haoyuan village filming a video about rural vitalization. To the west are the Helan Mountains and to the east is Yinchuan, the capital of the Ningxia Hui autonomous region. As we pull out of the homestay, I see the boy watching us go. Two days later, we're …

Stop Filming

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Kids could be winners of rural vitalization

China Daily

Students pose for a photo at a school in Haoyuan village. I'm in Haoyuan village filming a video about rural vitalization. To the west are the Helan Mountains and to the east is Yinchuan, the capital of the Ningxia Hui autonomous region. As we pull out of the homestay, I see the boy watching us go. Two days later, we're …

Stop Filming

8 months, 4 weeks ago

Exhibition offers a captivating insight into photographer's exploration of western China

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Overseas Chinese photographer Zhou Jiexiang introduces a photo of him to visitors to the exhibition at the Overseas Chinese History Museum of China in Beijing on Wednesday. The Overseas Chinese History Museum of China in Beijing inaugurated an exhibition featuring the landscape photography works of overseas Chinese photographer Zhou Jiexiang on Wednesday. The exhibition presents 64 of Zhou's photographs, which …

China Chinese Zhou

8 months, 4 weeks ago

Exhibition offers a captivating insight into photographer's exploration of western China

China Daily

Overseas Chinese photographer Zhou Jiexiang introduces a photo of him to visitors to the exhibition at the Overseas Chinese History Museum of China in Beijing on Wednesday. The Overseas Chinese History Museum of China in Beijing inaugurated an exhibition featuring the landscape photography works of overseas Chinese photographer Zhou Jiexiang on Wednesday. The exhibition presents 64 of Zhou's photographs, which …

China Chinese Zhou

9 months ago

Documentary shines light on Yangtze River

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Japanese documentary director Ryo Takeuchi, Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Jianghao, and Cimu, a Tibetan protagonist of Takeuchi's documentary film The Yangtze River, attend a screening and media exchange event in Tokyo on Sunday. The documentary film The Yangtze River, supervised by Japanese documentary director Ryo Takeuchi, will be released in Japan starting on Friday. I want to show real …

Film Japan Documentary Japanese Chinese Yangtze River Visit China

9 months, 2 weeks ago

SDU graduate showcases traditional culture through creative short videos

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Zhu Tiexiong, a graduate of Shandong University, has garnered widespread attention on the internet for his dedication to promoting traditional culture through the creation of short videos. During this year's Spring Festival Gala, Zhu made a memorable appearance at the Xi'an branch by transforming into a martial character from Qin Opera using special effects within 11 seconds. The videos also …

Culture Video Traditional Traditional Culture Chinese Zhu Shandong University

9 months, 2 weeks ago

SDU graduate showcases traditional culture through creative short videos

China Daily

Zhu Tiexiong, a graduate of Shandong University, has garnered widespread attention on the internet for his dedication to promoting traditional culture through the creation of short videos. During this year's Spring Festival Gala, Zhu made a memorable appearance at the Xi'an branch by transforming into a martial character from Qin Opera using special effects within 11 seconds. The videos also …

Culture Traditional Culture Zhu Traditional Chinese Shandong University Special Effects Short Videos

9 months, 2 weeks ago

Picturing a lost era

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Shepherdess, by Chinese painter Guan Zuolin, another of the works on show at The Meeting of Chinese and Western Art, an ongoing exhibition held in Beijing. Pupils and competitors When Chinnery taught his Chinese counterparts to create in the Western style, he might not have expected that, one day, these talented and hardworking pupils would outperform him, and even take …

Chinese Western Art

11 months, 1 week ago

Shanghai exhibition paints picture of change

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The Dance by Lin Fengmian is on display. "Between the 1950s and '70s, he tried to incorporate Chinese aesthetics in oil painting, creating many rural life scenes," Xiang says. "This laid a solid foundation for the arrival of his mature phase, when he developed an ingenious approach to lines, planes, and dots in landscape paintings, achieving a synthesis of Western …

Art China Painting Chinese Oil Painting Paints Picture

1 year ago

Documentary film presents authentic facet of China

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Poster of This Is Life. This Is Life, a documentary film created by the Tsingying Film studio and distributed by film distribution platform Elemeet, is set to grace the nation's big screens on Jan 13. By gathering the short video footage, the film engages ordinary people in its creation and presents their authentic life experience, allowing those who are often …

Film China Life Documentary Film This Is Life

1 year, 1 month ago

Documentary paints picture of country's emergence

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The exhibition being held in Changsha, Hunan province, runs from Nov 14 to Feb 18, and has attracted many young visitors. The Hunan Broadcasting System, which produced the series, has already turned some of those paintings into a real-life art exhibition, where 443 of the aforementioned 1,000 paintings are on display at Mango Art Museum in Changsha, Hunan province, from …

1 year, 1 month ago

Village people

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Viewers can enjoy a dramatic landscape from one of the observation spots on top of the mountain in Fengyi village, Haiyan county, Jiaxing, Zhejiang province. "I live in the neighborhood and often come here to kill time," Chen says. "They are all based on my memory, and each one takes about half a month to finish," Chen says, adding that …

Chen Village

1 year, 2 months ago

Stories and scenes of the world bloom under a writer's painting brushes

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Shanghai author Jin Yucheng sketched illustrations for Blossoms, his novel which evolves around the changing life scenes of Shanghai between the 1960s and '90s and won him the Mao Dun Literature Prize — one of the country's top literary accolades — in 2015. Jin Yucheng's drawings reveal the truth of life underlying the hustle and bustle of city life. He …

Life City Life Shanghai Jin

1 year, 3 months ago

Picturing a life that's long disappeared to keep it in the present

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Jinuo Group is a visual record of the Jinuo ethnic group in the 1980s. With his 40-odd years of field research on the Jinuo ethnic group, sociological researcher Zheng Xiaoyun, who now works as a professor at Hubei University, has recently published a photo collection, titled Jinuo Group, featuring more than 300 vivid photographs taken by Zheng that depict the …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Photographer preserves cultural heritages through lens

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Weifang kite making technique is a national intangible cultural heritage item in Shandong province. The photo series, titled "Guarding Spiritual Home", serves as a comprehensive documentation of the intangible cultural heritage items and their representative inheritors in Weifang, Shandong province. Photographer Zhang Jingguo, a member of the China Photographers Association, builds a series of miniature landscapes for the heritages combining …

Heritage Cultural Shandong Province Weifang

1 year, 6 months ago

Rural artists brighten up country life in east China

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Xinhua| Updated :2023-06-30 In June, at an exhibition in the Hangzhou Asian Games Museum, a scroll painting drawn by five farmer-turned painters of Yudong Village in east China's Zhejiang Province attracted many visitors. Using folk paper-cutting and other art techniques, the painting not only depicts the strong welcoming atmosphere in the countryside of the coming Asian Games but also shows …

Art Rural Country Rural Revitalization Village Zhejiang Shu

1 year, 8 months ago

Upcoming film traces Chinese youth pursuing dreams in different eras

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Poster of Zhongguo Qingnian: Wo He Wo De Qingchun. Zhongguo Qingnian: Wo He Wo De Qingchun, an upcoming movie that stars A-listers Zhang Yixing, Wang Yibo and Zhou Dongyu, will be streamed on three of China's most popular streaming sites – iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Video — starting from May 1. The first tale, titled "Flag", portrays a group of …

China Different Eras

1 year, 8 months ago

Upcoming film traces Chinese youth pursuing dreams in different eras

China Daily

Poster of Zhongguo Qingnian: Wo He Wo De Qingchun. Zhongguo Qingnian: Wo He Wo De Qingchun, an upcoming movie that stars A-listers Zhang Yixing, Wang Yibo and Zhou Dongyu, will be streamed on three of China's most popular streaming sites – iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Video — starting from May 1. The first tale, titled "Flag", portrays a group of …

China Different Eras Traces Chinese

1 year, 8 months ago

Picture portraits in rural settings

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A portrait of Angela Hui, who grew up in rural Wales and has lived in London for a decade. Since late January, in the entrance hall of the British Library, photo portraits have been displayed of Chinese faces in different rural British settings. While most Chinese British in the UK are based in cities, these photos taken by Jamie Lau …

London British Chinese Lau Different Portrait Jamie Lau

1 year, 8 months ago

A novel tale of life and death in rural China

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Writer Hu Xuewen has spent almost eight years working on the 938-page novel, Hope and Life, which explores the emotional and spiritual history of people in a rural area of China over the course of a century. "Such a godlike character gives the novel great freedom in terms of narration," Hu says. Speaking at a seminar about the novel in …

Life Rural Grandmother Qiao Hu Xuewen China Writer Novel Great

1 year, 10 months ago

Honoring those from before

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Centuries-old portraits on display at the Chinese Traditional Culture Museum provide an intriguing insight into the traditions of venerating departed family members in ancient China. It is normal these days to have one's gadgets — mobile phones, tablets and laptops — filled with photos and videos of family members, so that one can be reminded of the pleasures of family …

Family Family Members

1 year, 11 months ago

Polishing the image of abandoned theme parks

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Photographic artist Zhou Chengzhou appeals to the audience's sense of nostalgia with his ongoing exhibition Times Paradise in Beijing, which features scenes of old amusement parks across the country in varying states of repair. Like the towering plumes of water at the end of a log flume ride, the nostalgia crashes over you like a wave as soon as you …

1 year, 11 months ago

Polishing the image of abandoned theme parks

China Daily

Photographic artist Zhou Chengzhou appeals to the audience's sense of nostalgia with his ongoing exhibition Times Paradise in Beijing, which features scenes of old amusement parks across the country in varying states of repair. Like the towering plumes of water at the end of a log flume ride, the nostalgia crashes over you like a wave as soon as you …

1 year, 11 months ago

Polishing the image of abandoned theme parks

China Daily

Photographic artist Zhou Chengzhou appeals to the audience's sense of nostalgia with his ongoing exhibition Times Paradise in Beijing, which features scenes of old amusement parks across the country in varying states of repair. Zhou made a point of finding deserted fun parks through the recommendations of friends, online platforms, such as Xiaohongshu, or by scouring satellite maps. "I saw …

Parks Zhou

1 year, 11 months ago

Polishing the image of abandoned theme parks

China Daily

Photographic artist Zhou Chengzhou appeals to the audience's sense of nostalgia with his ongoing exhibition Times Paradise in Beijing, which features scenes of old amusement parks across the country in varying states of repair. Like the towering plumes of water at the end of a log flume ride, the nostalgia crashes over you like a wave as soon as you …

1 year, 11 months ago

Polishing the image of abandoned theme parks

China Daily

Photographic artist Zhou Chengzhou appeals to the audience's sense of nostalgia with his ongoing exhibition Times Paradise in Beijing, which features scenes of old amusement parks across the country in varying states of repair. Like the towering plumes of water at the end of a log flume ride, the nostalgia crashes over you like a wave as soon as you …

2 years ago

Building nostalgia

China Daily

From 2019 to 2021, Ju Anqi traveled around the country with his team to make Lou, which features historical and modern architecture and more than 50 architects, scholars and experts. One of the buildings where Ju shot during the making of Lou was the Zhenfeng Pagoda, which is located inside Yingjiang Temple on the banks of the Yangtze River in …

Lou Building Nostalgia