＂Time for Chinese＂ Held in Benin＇s Chinese Culture Center

On July 11, a Chinese language proficiencydevelopment event, entitled ＂Time for Chinese＂, was held in China Culture Center in Benin. It was the 7th session of this cultural event, aiming to showcase results that Benin＇s Chinese language Learners had achieved in the center＇s training programs, Some 80 persons attended the event.     

Getting to Know China： Appreciation of 100 Chinese Characters

Getting to Know China： Appreciation of 100 Chinese Characters is one of the book series ＂Meet China＂ produced by the Ministry of Culture of China in 2013. The book selects 100 Chinese characters that represent Chinese culture to some extent. Targeted at foreign readers most of whom are unfamiliar with Chinese characters, the book elaborates on the meanings of Chinese characters and their cultural connotation concisely and to the point.     

Tibet under Tibetan Painters’ Brushes

Over the past three decades,many foreign and Chinese painters have been to Tibet for artistic creation,including such big names as Hirayama Ikuo of Japan,Sydney Paul of Australia,Liu Guosong and Rang Maoqin of Taiwan, Lin Tianxing of Hong Kong,Lu Chang of Macao and Robert Rauschenberg of USA.In his solo exhibition in China in 1985,Robert Rauschenberg particularly chose Beijing and Lhasa as its venues.At that time,Lhasa had yet to embrace modern lifestyles and art trends.His conceptual and installation works     

Top Art Collectors Dominate World＇s Art Market

ARTnews magazine, a prestigious USA-based art periodical with a history of 105 years,announced in 2007 the ARTnews 200, its annual list of the 200 most active players in the art market. However, only a few of Asian names were included in this annual list and there was no single Mainland Chinese name on the ARTnews 200 that year. What did that list on the world＇s leading art collectors mean to the overheated art market in China and 70 million Chinese who are involved with art collection？     

Experts Comment on the Translation and Spread of Chinese Culture

Translation is a major barrier to overcome in China＇s endeavors to bring its culture to the rest of the world. Translation does not simply mean the process of switching from one language to another： it means more the exchange of different ways of thinking and different expressions of culture, In fact, translation marks re-creation of original works by translators. We need not only master scholars knowing well about Chinese and.foreign cultures, but also a large number of high-end professionals capable of doing cross-culture exchanges and cross-culture re-creation, in particular, translators in lesser-known languages.     

＂Happy Chinese New Year＂ Tours to Thailand

Spring Festival is the most important traditional holiday for the Chinese nation. ＂Happy Chinese New Year＂ is a brand for cultural exchanges with foreign countries initiated by the Ministry of Culture. This film introduces celebrations of Chinese New Year in Thailand in 2013 and presents the joyous and auspicious Chinese Spring Festival and the colorful Chinese culture from the eyes of government officials from two countries,     

GLOBAL MEDIA GIANT FAVORS CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART

LTB Media, a prestigious global publishing group and on-line information provider on art, announced the opening of the Chinese edition of its website for world artists—www.myartinfo.com, in Beijing on November 27. It is the second foreign online art media that has accessed the Chinese market, following www. artnet.com. Luousie Blouin Macbain, founder and chairman of LTB Holding Co., Ltd. ＆ LTB Foundation, and Wang Guangyi,     

LEARNING CHINESE BECOMES NEW FAD

While English still remains the most widely used language for international communication in most countries around the Pacific Rim, Chinese is being taught in more and more schools in those countries. Chinese is playing an increasingly important role in daily lives and work of Asia-Pacific people. China’s dramatic rise to the world’s economic powerhouse and its rapidly growing international influence are driving the interest to learn its language. Chinese is becoming a new global language …     

Bold VISION

China's official entry into the WTO, together with the amazingly rapid upgrading of its Internet technology, has rocketed China into the global arena. We now urgently need to reflect on how to develop the Chinese publishing industry so that it can keep pace with the globalization of the 21st century. We must be fully aware of the competition in funding, technologies and human resources that come with the entry of foreign capital, as well as the tremendous influence of the Internet's role in publishing. The     

Spring Festival Celebrations in Qujiang

In celebration of the Chinese lunar year of the snake, a great variety of cultural events have been presented in scenic spots managed by Qujiang Culture and Tourism Group. During the Spring Festival holidays, these places of interest have attracted nearly 1.3 million visitors and registered a revenue of 16.58 million RMB     

A Glimpse of the Shanghai World Expo

The Shanghai World Expo has concluded with great success, attracting more than 70 million viewers, a pledge committed by the Expo＇s organizing committee when bidding for the hosting right. The innovatively-designed pavilions of every participant country and organization fascinated both Chinese and foreign viewers with their hi-tech elements and rich traditions and cultures.     

Spreading Chinese Culture Worldwide简

Aiming at commending overseas Chinese,foreign friends and public figures of China who have made huge contribution to the dissemination of Chinese culture, the award ceremony of “China Light： Persons of the Year 2013 in Disseminating Chinese Culture”, jointly hosted by the Ministry of Culture, the Information Office of the State Council, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, Chinese People＇s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and others, was held in Beijing on December 20, 2013. Senior officials fTom these host departments attended the ceremony and presented the awards to ten individuals and one group.     

Global Craze for the Chinese Language

Thanks to China＇s growing national strength and enhanced International status, the Chinese language is becoming one of the most popular languages in the 21st century. As more and more foreigners are learning Chinese, more employment and business opportunities emerged out of the global craze for learning Chinese.     

Sydney Fascinated by Chinese New Year Parade

Every year Sydney celebrates Chinese New Year, the most spectacular event outside Asia. The 2008 celebration lasted three weeks, attracting nearly one million visitors. On the morning of February 10, nearly 100,000 local residents and foreign tourists crowded along George Street in the downtown of Sydney, waiting with eagerness for the grand parade by performers from the northwest province of Shaanxi, China. Yang Zhangying, a 71 -year-old lady who emigrated from Shanghai more than ten years ago, dressed in a red mandarin gown, arrived at the City Hall in the early morning. She said with excitement, ＂I wear this dress only on grand and commemorative occasions.＂ At 11 a.m., Clover Moore, Lord Mayor of Sydney, in a red Tang-style dress,     

Wu Guanzhong： An Artist with Unsinkable Ideal

At 2pm on May 8th 2006, buyers from all over the world were gathering at Hong Kong Convention .and Exhibition Center for the auction session inthe ＂20th Century Chinese Art Exhibition＂. The first item was No. 170 - ＂East Lake in Shaoxin＂ by Wu Guanzhong. This small oil painting, only 45.5cm long and 61cm high, was appraised at 2 million Hong Kong dollars and was finally sold at 4.04 million. Later in the auction, the painting ＂Peach Blossom＂ also painted by Wu Guanzhong in 1963 was sold at 4.488 million and his ＂Concord Square＂ painted in 1989 was appraised at 2 to 2.5 million and was sold at 4.824 million. At that auction, 9 masterpieces painted by Wu Guanzhong before the 1980s were auctioned and all sold at high prices.     

China Hosts Young Overseas Sinologists

Sinology is an academic discipline on the study of China, Chinese people and Chinese culture. Today, the scope of sinology has widened extensively to establish itself as a knowledge system on the study of Chinese philosophy, history, language, literature, arts, politics, economy and society. Sinology development relies on sinologists and translators who play an indispensible role in helping the rest of the world know more about China.     

International Cultural Exchanges in the Early Stages of New China

Cultural exchanges with foreign countries have a long history in China, as the Chinese nationkeeps introducing and integrating the cultural essence of other nations to enrich and develop its own culture, the ancient Chinese intellectuals, scholars and monks devoted themselves or evensacrifice themselves to the cause of international cultural exchange, leaving many legacies of much-told stories and much-visited relics： from the Silk Road in the Qjn and Han dynasties to Fa Hsien＇s travel to South Asia.     

Chinese Spring Festival Celebrated in Thailand

From January 23 to February 4, ＂Cultural Series in Celebration of Chinese Spring Festival＂ was launched in Thailand, coorganized by Chinese Cultural Ministry, Chinese Embassy in Thailand and departments of the Thai Government concerned. It was the fifth session of the event and the largest Spring Festival celebration that China held overseas in 2009.     

Mao Zedong and His Ideas on Chinese Cultural Exchange with Other Nations

MAO Zedong,a leadingstatesman and ideologistof the twentieth century,rarely went abroad when overseeingaffairs of state in China.He had,nevertheless,a broad knowledge ofmany foreign ideas and civilizations,and saw the wisdom in the ex-change of ideas between China andother countries.He personally in-volved himself in many of theseprojects to further the world’sknowledge of China,her relation-ships with the outside world,mod-     

Folklore and High Art Displayed Together to Welcome Chinese New Year

During the Spring Festival this year, National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) displayed traditional folk art together with Chinese and foreign artists‘ painting masterpieces in celebration of Chinese New Year.