Tran Ba Hieu, a 30-year-old Vietnamese PhD student majoring in traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacology in Shanghai, has developed a deep interest in Chinese poems. Although he had not yet ...

Sitting at the dining table in his home in Champaign, U.S. Midwest state of Illinois, Cai Zongqi recalled his career of teaching Chinese literature at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC ...

For centuries, the Yangtze porpoise was a common sight on the river it is named after. Now, the freshwater mammal is critically endangered, rarely sighted, and only found in a tiny proportion of the ...

Wu Yishu, winner of the second season of Chinese Poetry Conference. Having been ignored for the past few decades since China's modernization drive, the treasure trove of the Chinese ancient poetry is ...

A close-up of a smiling Yangtze finless porpoise at the Baiji Dolphinarium of the Institute of Hydrobiology. (Wang Chaoqun/Chinese Academy of Sciences) (CN) — The ever-smiling Yangtze finless porpoise ...

On Wednesday morning, poetry and song became more than performances. They became a bridge between the two neighboring nations ...

Many Chinese people rekindled their interest in classical Chinese poetry recently thanks to a popular show that aims to "appreciate classical Chinese poetry, explore cultural genes and enjoy the ...

A creature once revered in ancient Chinese folklore and immortalized in poetry for its playful spirit and perpetual smile is now swimming against extinction. The Yangtze finless porpoise—Asia’s only ...

A 14-year-old Japanese girl raises donations for Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei Province and epicenter of outbreak of the novel coronavirus, on Saturday in Tokyo, Japan. She did the same on ...