Through the National Day holiday, the fashion hall of the China National Silk Museum in Hangzhou drew a steady line of visitors stopping to photograph themselves beside the displays. The draw was Lingjing Garden (灵境花园), an exhibition of couture by Guo Pei built around more than 200 pieces chosen from four decades of her work. […]
On October 1, a craft better known in southeastern Shanxi opened in a Beijing factory-turned-art district. “Pile Brocade of Shangdang, Breaking Boundaries to Be Born Anew”, a themed exhibition of Shangdang pile brocade, began at the 751 Shulin Gallery in the 798 Art Zone and runs to October 15, carrying the craft out of Shanxi […]
If you want to see how Chinese wellness is landing with visitors from abroad, start at an airport. Outside the one-stop service centre for foreign travellers at Terminal 2 of Shanghai Pudong International Airport, a group of overseas passengers follows staff through a set of Baduanjin (八段锦) movements, the slow eight-section exercise that has become […]
Over the seven days of National Day, Badachu Park in Beijing’s Western Hills packed 70 events into a single week. The 13th Badachu Culture Week ran from October 1 to 7, built around two threads the organisers named red heritage and Chinese-style revival, and stitched together red-culture experiences, roaming flash shows, Han-Tang-style parades and hands-on […]
For four nights around National Day, the China National Arts and Crafts Museum handed its floor to people who make things rather than to a professional troupe. Between October 3 and 5, the museum, which also carries the name China Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum, staged four holiday performances of Keyiguan (可以观), a public-education programme it […]
At first glance, A Prophet (我不是大师) looks like a revenge tale set in the Republican era. Then its finale arrives, and the floor drops. Shangguan Chengming (上官诚明) finally steps into the truth, yet victory tastes like ash. Jiang Feiyan (江飞燕) has her own plan, and the audience waits for a clean win. Instead, every major […]
I went into the finale of A Prophet (我不是大师) expecting to feel smarter than the writers. For weeks I was sure Jin Buhuan (金不换) was rotten. Saving the hero? Cold calculation. He wanted Wang Jiaxian (王家贤) to hate Zu Ye (祖爷) enough to kill him. A son destroying his father—that would hurt more than any […]
Li Yitong (李一桐) appears in A Prophet (我不是大师) with a red embroidered stage costume, silver headpieces, and precise, brisk eye makeup. Above her brows sit several curved black strips, laid in a tidy arc. For regular opera-goers, the look is familiar: it is the forehead styling of a Dan (旦), the female role type in […]
When Zhang Yifan (张艺凡) appeared as Zhang Shi’erniang (张十二娘) in the film Heroes of Dunhuang (敦煌英雄), viewers noticed something unusual above her head. Two large hollow rings, perched symmetrically on either side of her crown, rose upward like portals to another era. The actress, previously known for her role in Better Days (少年的你), wore a red-and-green […]
A new 30-episode costume fantasy has finally shown its cards. How to Slay Your Boss (千夜奇谭) announced its full cast, began shooting in August 2026, and will stream only on iQIYI and its TV app. Wajijiwa (哇唧唧哇) Entertainment produces it with iQIYI. Zhao Yilong (赵一龙), who directed Love Game in Eastern Fantasy (永夜星河), sits in […]
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