A series of cultural activities, recently held at the State University of New York at Old Westbury and the Long Island School of Chinese, featured exhibitions of Chinese poetry, calligraphy, painting ...

Gao Chong and Wang Peng (right) perform at the National Centre for the Performing Arts on September 19, 2013. Photo: Courtesy of Juntian Fang Guqin becalms, says Wang Peng. The music plunges the ...

Once an indispensable part of the self-education for all highbrow intellectuals in China, the ancient art of seven-stringed guqin playing has long been confined into a musical skill or hobby only ...

White-collar workers learn playing the guqin (Chinese zither) at You Huang Li guqin salon. Nowadays, more and more white collars in pursuit of a slow life show great interest in traditional Chinese ...

A guqin concert is a key highlight of this year's Shanghai Spring Music Festival that will be held later in the month. A stringed instrument of the zither family, guqin is one of China's oldest, and ...

The guqin, or qin, is a seven-stringed, classical musical instrument that is a relative of the zither family, and has a history in China of about 5,000 years. Scholars and sages considered the qin as ...

A guqin concert serves as a highlight of a recent culture festival, Zhang Kun reports in Suzhou. The Suzhou Culture and Tourism Festival, which started on Aug 24, is showcasing 22 performances of 18 ...

Made by veteran Hong Kong filmmaker Lau Shing-hon over 10 years, MUSIC BEYOND SOUND tells the story of an unlikely guqin master. In 1974, John Thompson, an American, went to Taiwan, then Hong Kong, to ...

The documentary consists of three chapters: "Making Guqin", "Temperament", and "Aesthetic Conception", taking viewers to the heritage sites of the Guqin in Zhenjiang ...