CHICAGO — The pandemic made a trip to China to cover the Olympic host country difficult. So we pivoted and found the Spirit of China stories right here at home in the United States. We traveled to ...

Bordering nations often share a common food or musical heritage that develops as a process of mutual influences. Mongolia, with its rich and distinctive musical traditions, is bordered by Russia in ...

Plucked, like the Chinese zither, or bowed, like the erhu, stringed instruments have been played for hundreds of years in China This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...

What sounds sweeter and more personal than a violin? Many people would say the erhu, a Chinese string instrument dating to the mid-8th century that has been put to some very modern uses recently.

Originating nearly 2,500 years ago, the guzheng is a traditional Chinese zither, a stringed instrument featuring up to 21 movable strings and bridges. The ancient instrument was the exact piece ...

Nashville-based composer and guitarist Bryan Clark was surprised when he became the first Western artist inducted into the Chinese Cultural Heritage Guild. "It seemed like the irony of ironies," Clark ...

In its latest play at the Chinese market, Apple on Monday released an updated version of GarageBand with a heavy focus on Chinese music, introducing new regional instruments, Chinese music loops and ...