For Italian mezzo-soprano Erica Cortese, 31, the greatest challenge in performing Chinese Tang Dynasty (618-907) poetry in a symphonic song was not only the language but also the intense emotions she ...

Literature professor Dai Jianye became famous online when video clips of his accented, humorous and insightful interpretations of ancient poems went viral on a popular short video platform, drawing ...

A 16-year-old student has won a televised Chinese poetry competition winning fans over with her keen knowledge of the country's ancient culture and works. Wu Yishu, a student at the High School ...

Editor's Note: In an era dominated by fragmented information and short videos, professor Kang Zhen has risen as a distinguished cultural influencer, advocating for the timeless beauty of ancient ...

New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that ‘stressed poetry’, the ancestor of all modern poetry and song, was already in use in the 2 nd Century CE, 300 years earlier ...

BEIJING, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- Learning about ancient poems can be a fun experience, just as a 62-year-old man can be an online celebrity. Dai Jianye, a literature professor with Central China Normal ...

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 ...

When I meet Nineb Lamassu at England's Cambridge University, where he's a researcher, he transports us to his Middle Eastern homeland by opening his computer and playing me a recording of a man ...

In the days of the ancient Greeks, poetry and sport went hand in hand at athletic festivals like the Olympics. Poets sang the praises of athletic champions and, at some festivals, even competed in ...

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