Since 2016, China Central Television has been airing an annual prime-time cultural game show on classical and modern Chinese poetry. Chinese Poetry Congress, broadcast every evening during the Spring ...

To many people's surprise, one of the most popular recent TV reality shows in China has been Chinese Poetry Conference, a classical Chinese poetry competition devoid of any TV stars. What makes the ...

Thoughts In Night Quiet, the old chestnut about homesickness by Tang poet Li Bai, is a simple classical Chinese poem I have known by heart most of my life. It must be the best-known string of 20 words ...

Some of the participants with the production team after this season's contest of the Chinese Classical Poetry Quiz Show, which concluded last month.[Photo provided to China Daily] Verse written ...

Cheung Ka-ka (top, centre) and Liu Wai-hung (above, centre) are impressed by the beauty of classical poetry. Photos: Lai Ying-Kit A group of young Hong Kong poetry fans are adding a modern touch to ...

Most weddings in Egypt this day and age prefer the popular ‘shaabi’ or ‘mahraganat’ (festival) songs as source of entertainment and dancing; however, for those who’ve studied classical Arabic poetry ...

Julian Peters illustrates a classic poem from American icon Langston Hughes. By Graeme McMillan April is National Poetry Month, and to mark the occasion, Plough Publishing Press is releasing a graphic ...