Pingtan hosts Chinese classics gala

The 2018 Chinese Classics Gala was held on Dec. 10 in Pingtan Comprehensive Pilot Zone (PCPZ), Southeast China’s Fujian Province.

Art in minutes with dough figurines

Making dough figurines dates back to the late Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and is listed as a provincial intangible cultural heritage. Folk artists make the figures by hand, using wheat flour and glutinous rice flour as raw materials.

Ancient encyclopedia shown in Beijing museum

A grand exhibition showing documents related to The Yongle Canon, an ancient encyclopedia compiled in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), is ongoing at the National Museum of Classic Books in Beijing.

'Doctors' revive ancient cultural heritages

Straw-plaited artwork exhibited in Hebei

A craftsman this week exhibited his straw-plaited artwork to highlight the traditional folk art in Zhangjiakou in the Hebei province.

Ames: Confucianism should play its due part in world integration

The Guoxue lecture, themed “Human beings broaden the way, but sagacious human beings can broaden tian”was given on the evening of Dec.5 in Pingtan Comprehensive Pilot Zone by Roger T. Ames, a noted sinologist.

Roger T. Ames: Finding pleasure and contentment in Philosophy

In the fields of sinology and philosophy in the Western world, Roger T. Ames is currently one of the big names. His works have adressed centuries-long misunderstandings of Chinese philosophical ideas that have prevailed in the West, and have opened a new space for dialogue in philosophy and culture between China and the outside world.

A foreign professor's life-time love of Chinese classics: Roger T. Ames

“Dear specialists, dear teachers and dear friends, hello everyone!” The tall foreign professor before us bows low to the audience, delivering his opening speech with a “Chinese flavor” expertly. It’s obvious that he knows a lot about Chinese greetings. This man, evaluated by Chinese scholars as “gentle like spring wind with the feeling of a noble gentleman,” who has translated traditional Chinese classics like "The Analects" and "The Art of War", and has been awarded the “Confucius Culture Prize” at the World Confucian Conference, is the renowned American sinologist Roger T. Ames.