A group of youngsters in red silk Mandarin-collared shirts are plucking, beating or blowing into Asian musical instruments that generate delicately trembling and airy melodies. The young musicians ...

An 8,700-year-old bone flute unearthed in central China's Henan Province has been proven to use a seven-tone scale, an unusual number in traditional Chinese music, said a local researcher at the ...

This article serves as an introduction to our upcoming series on classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we will show you how musicians play the eight ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Perhaps the closest Chinese equivalent to La France profonde is the province of Yunnan. In the country’s ...

This is the second ina series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

Painting A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains by Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) artist Wang Ximeng Photo: VCG You never know how romantic and talented Chinese people can be. The only surviving ...