Suzhou-style Embroidery： Progress through Innovation

Over decades Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute has involved itself in a plethora of exchange events and exhibitions, with an aim to promote Chinese traditions,expand international exchange and enhance the friendship with the rest of the world. Its embroidery works have been on display in more than 100 countries across the world and widely acclaimed by foreign viewers who call Suzhou-style embroidery ＂freasure from the East＂,     

Young sinologists： messengers to spread Chinese culture overseas First session of the 2014 visiting program for young sinologists

The first ＂2014 Young Sinologists Training Program＂ was held from July 2 to 22 in Beijing. Co-sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and organized by the Center of International Cultural Exchange, the program drew 18 young Sinologists from 15 countries, including the United States, France, India and South Korea. By participating in lectures, seminars and other activities, the participants gained academic inspiration as well as a better understanding of China. At the opening ceremony, Chinese vice cultural minister Ding Wei said, ＂Studies on the 21 st-century China is a compulsory course. Chinese development is closely related with world development and the Chinese Dream connects with dreams of the people from the rest of the world.＂     

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.     

Chinese Porcelain Collection in Topkapi Palace：A Witness of Friendship

The Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, Turkey, the royal palace of the Ottoman Empire in ancient times, serves as Turkey＇s national museum today, As one of the museums with the largest Chinese porcelain collection in the world, the Topkapi Palace boasts a total of 10,358 pieces of Chinese porcelain made during the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. These porcelains fall into such categories as celadon, blue-and- white, single-color and multi-color porcelain, and were obtained as tributes, gifts, trophies or trade commodities in history.     

Chinese Film and Cannes Festival

Cannes Film Festival has drawn worldwide attention for its unparalleled international impact. And film professionals of the world can hardly resist the attraction of Golden Palm prize. This article reviews the ten landmark events in the historical relationship between Chinese film and Cannes Festival. 1956: Chinese film's relationship with Cannes Festival can date back to 1956. Although new China had yet to establish diplomatic relations with France, it dispatched a film delegation led by…     

The Moving Forbidden City： Hu Xiaodan＇s Creative Fashion Works

At Dusseldorf Fashion Exposition in Germany in 1996, the only invited Chinese designer Hu Xiaodan captured attention of world top designers with his creative and exquisite production of Forbidden City attires and was considered the world‘s most avant-garde designer of the year. For the first time,Chinese national flag was raised at this world-class exposition to honor the accomplishments of Chinese designers and fashion creations.     

Chinese Culinary Festival Unveiled in Paris

The week-long “Chinese Culinary Festival” was unveiled on the evening of June 11 in the courtyard of Chinese Culture Center in Paris. Refined Chinese delicacies as well as the penetrating and sweeping Chinese culinary culture left a deeper impression of an already familiar “Chinese Food” concept on the more than 200 Parisians attending the festival.     

Sculpture Exchange Promotes Peace and Friendship

While four Chinese large sculptures featuring the theme of ＂peace and friendship＂ arrived in Washington DC, New Jersey, Atlanta and Kansas respectively, four American sculptures with the same theme were shipped to China and set in Beljing, Shanghai, Foshan and Changchun respectively. This ambitious cultural exchange event, in celebration of the 30th anniversary ot Chino-US diplomatic ties, aimed to promote peace and friendship through art and express Chinese people＇s value highlighting harmony and their sincere expectation for o more peaceful world.     

＂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,     

Marionettes of Quanzhou： the Art of Lines and Design

The past decade has seen Quanzhou Marionette Troupe＇s most frequent exchanges with the outsideworld. The troupe has toured more than 30 countries and regions around the world, staging some 80 performances to show the marvelous art of Chinese marionettes which enjoy a history of 2000 years or so. In 2005, the troupe was invited to show at the UN headquarter in New York, gaining worldwide acclaims with its outstanding skills and performance.     

The Moving Forbidden City: Hu Xiaodan''''s Creative Fashion Works

At Dusseldorf Fashion Exposition in Germany in 1996, the only invited Chinese designer Hu Xiaodan captured attention of world top designers with his creative and exquisite production of Forbidden City attires and was considered the world's most avant-garde designer of the year. For the first time, Chinese national flag was raised at this world-class exposition to honor the accomplishments of Chinese designers and fashion creations.     

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 …     

Chinese Lacquer Art

Over the sweep of Chinese longstanding history,numerous treasures and heritages have been left over,among which the lacquer art is a brilliant one.China is the earliest country in the world using natural lacquer,In the early 1970s,archeologists unearthed a red lacquer wood bowl in an excavation in the     

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.     

CHINESE LANGUAGE—Goes More Popular around the World

At apress conference held during the 2nd annual session of the 11th National People＇s Congress on March 1 2, Director-General of the Hanban （Chinese Language Council international） and the Headquarters of Confucius Institutes Mr. Xu Lin said that Chinese language courses had been offered in more than 3000 universities and colleges in 109 countries around the world and foreign learners of the Chinese language had exceeded 40 million, it is estimated that foreign learners of the Chinese language will reach up to 100 million by 2010.     

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-     

A Brief Review of Chinese Print

Chinese print can date back 1100 years. For example, carved bricks and stones in the Han Dynasty are actually ear, forms of woodprint. As a type of print art, wood board printing invented in the Tang Dynasty was closely related to life of ordinary people and helped to spread arts in ancient China. Buddhist sutra Vajracchedika printed in 868 AD is the important evidence testifying to the wood board printing of the Tang Dynasty and the world＇s earliest complete printed book still preserved today. Thus it is generally recognized as the peak of print art of the Tang Dynasty.     

SUNKEN ANCIENT SHIP SALVAGED

Editor＇s words：Over the sweep of history,Chinese people have paid heavy price in their struggles with the ocean.A large number of sunken ships are evidence that testifies to the history of South China Sea as an important maritime passage linking the mainland to the outside world since the Song Dynesty dating back to more than 1000 years.In 1987 the discovery of the sunken Song-Dynasty ship＂South China Sea No.1＂in the border area between Yangjiang and Taishan counties in Guangdong Province is the landmark event for China＇s underwater archeologists.20 years from then on,surveys and excavations done to this ancient ship have witnessed the development of Chinese underwater archeology.With decades of efforts by experts from various fields,the sunken ship was eventually salvaged out of water in 2007 and will be housed in the newly-built Maritime Silk Road Museum in Guangdong...     

AGLIMPSE OF CHINESE MURALPAINTING

Mural painting enjoys a long history in China and numerous mural masterpieces .have been left over from ancient times.For example, Mogao Grotto Temples in Dunhuang house 492 caves with some 45000 square meters of mural painting. First built in 366 AD, Mogao Grotto Temples are the best-preserved grotto groups with the largest number of mural paintings in the world. In addition, there are more than 25,000 square meters of mural painting preserved in temples and tomb chambers in Shanxi Province. And mural paintings in Yongle Palace in Ruicheng, Shanxi and Fahai Temple in Beijing are considered classical masterpieces of Chinese mural art. The art of porcelain, lacquer, silk, cast copper, painted stone and brick in ancient China all have contributed to the diversity and excellence of mural painting skills. Since the 1970s, this art form has gained growing vitality, with a diversity of genres developed.[第一段]