A contestant performs recitation of Chinese poetry during the Bangladesh Chinese Poetry Recitation Competition in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 25, 2025.

With the wonderful performances, including poetry recitation, elegant Guzheng playing, calligraphy displays, and creative ...

MORE than 1,500 years ago, poet Lu Kai, living in the south, sent a sprig of plum blossom to his friend Fan Ye in ...

The Chinese Language Day celebration is part of a wider United Nations initiative to advocate for multilingualism and cultural diversity within its global operations.

Any discussion of ancient Chinese poetry usually starts with Li Bai, the Tang Dynasty writer famous for liking a drink and for crafting some of the language’s best-known verses. Almost as celebrated ...

Poet Daud Haider, known for his timeless poem Janmo-i Amar Ajanmo Pap (My Birth, My Eternal Sin), died while undergoing treatment at a Berlin hospital early yesterday (Bangladesh time). He was 73 ...

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He lived in India for 13 years before leaving for Germany where he died at the age of 73. Sahitya Akademy Award-winning Bengali poet Subodh Sarkar told PTI that Haider's poems reflected anger and ...

Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza Aufrichtig Someone once defined poetry as “memorable speech.” By that standard, each of us ...

LONDON (AP) — Lawyers for an Egyptian poet and activist who has been allegedly detained and held in solitary confinement without charge in the United Arab Emirates for over 100 days have filed a ...

China is the homeland of the peony, and Luoyang's cultivation of these flowers dates back to the Sui Dynasty (581-618). By ...