Xiaogang Ye laughed awkwardly as he recounted a conversation with a western music lover. “He said: ‘Hey, your music interests me. But it’s very high—I suppose the voice has to be high when reading ...

When Seth Boustead — leader of a Chicago-based music ensemble — wanted in 2006 to commission via the internet a new composition from a Chinese composer working in China, he had trouble finding one.

Nine of Suzhou's gardens inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage list, Xu Xiao reports. The classical gardens of Suzhou, Jiangsu province, which were former private estates, represent the highest level of ...

BEIJING, May 11 (Xinhua) -- A series of books on classical Chinese novels have been published by the People's Literature Publishing House, compiling 54 volumes of 25 classics that represent the ...

Chinese classical aesthetics are becoming a "weathervane" for the modern TV and film industry. As traditional Chinese culture is being brought up more and more often in TV series today, this classic ...

Inna Faliks is professor of piano and head of the piano department at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. It was December 2018, and I was on my third concert tour of China. I took my final bows, a ...