The Mongol Chinese emperor Kublai Khan was immortalised by English poet Samuel Coleridge’s opium-fuelled descriptions of the “pleasure dome” at Xanadu, the imperial summer capital in northern China.

CHESTER marked the Lunar New Year of the Snake on Saturday, February 1, with a breathtaking display in the city centre.

An often overlooked, yet highly impactful world cinema industry in the last few decades, Chinese cinema remains widely known ...

Metal hooks weighed down with milk pots skewered the flesh of men’s backs as tridents pierced their cheeks and tongues.

Best known for kung fu, the monks are the custodians of Zen Buddhism in China. The meeting with the pontiff comes a few days ...

Through the Fantastic Four, Lee and Kirby built out the Marvel Universe, redefining superheroes from the square-jawed characters found at DC into true pop art creations, modern in style and ...

Like other movies by Portuguese director Miguel Gomes, the award-winning Grand Tour is easy to watch but hard to categorise.

With Japan’s first full-colour film, Carmen Comes Home, screening around the UK, we dive into the luminous world of Japanese colour filmmaking in the 1950s and early 1960s.

“The artist who, in the shadow of the throne of His Majesty, has become a master of calligraphy is Muhammad Husain of Kashmir ...

The enthralling city in modern-day Pakistan launched Kipling’s career – and was where he developed a crush on an Englishwoman ...

Have you ever wondered what secrets are hidden beneath the dirt or tucked away in rooms where few have gone … Continue ...

On the third day of February, Vasyl, Volodymyr, Ivan, Mykhailo, Mykola, Pavlo, Roman, Semen, Timothy, and Anna celebrate ...