Last week, we heard the music of an ancient Chinese instrument -- the Xiao, or vertical flute, and today, we'll be hearing another ancient Chinese wind instrument, the Xun, a pear-shaped clay pipe, ...

At the recently concluded 2025 Shanghai Book Fair, a single item stole the spotlight - not a best-selling novel or a rare manuscript, but a sweater vest. Inspired by the one frequently worn by Chinese ...

Ancient Chinese described the music of the oval-shaped wind instrument Xun as the sound of autumn. With a history of more than 7,000 years, Xun is one of the oldest instruments found so far in China.

Does the man who is considered a giant of 20th century literature continue to influence the current generation of writers and readers? Chitralekha Basu, Yang Guang and Mei Jia mull the issue. Lu Xun ...

The connection between Lu Xun, a master of modern Chinese literature, and Yi Yuksa, a Korean independence activist and poet, is being renewed after 93 years through a meeting of their descendants.

Lu Xun (penname of Zhou Shuren, 1881–1936), the man who would become the most influential Chinese writer of the modern age, boarded the Ta Chang Maru in Nanjing on March 24, 1902, and set sail via ...

The Lu Xun Memorial Hall in Shaoxing, East China’s Zhejiang Province, responded Monday evening to debate over a mural showing the famed writer with a cigarette, stressing that the site has always ...

With the rise of Lu Xun and several contemporaries, prose became a reality, and a new generation of fiction writers emerged. Lu Xun was not just writing in a new voice, but daring to record the voices ...