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English and French versions of Dunhuang's Digital Library Cave give 'tourists' new experience, Fang Aiqing reports.

Digital Library Cave is a way the public can see ancient wonder of the Library Cave, or Cave 17 of the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, in Gansu province, China

These ten ancient texts spanning diverse cultures and eras, offered profound new insights into human wisdom and history.

The recent movie Great Love Dunhuang, a semi-documentary centered on Honorary President of the Dunhuang Academy Fan Jinshi, has shed light on the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) Taoist abbot Wang Yuanlu, who was the caretaker of the Mogao Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Dunhuang in Northwest China’s Gansu Province. Wang is remembered as the man who discovered the Library Cave at the site, a repository of over 50,000 items dating back to the 4th to the 11th century.

The cultural heritage protection technology system of the Dunhuang Academy not only has contributed to over 200 key national cultural relics protection projects in China, but also plays a positiv...

Drawing on the British Library’s extraordinary collection of literature, art, maps and sound, the Library’s 2024/2025 exhibitions will inspire and surprise visitors of all ages.

The cultural treasures of Qing China, fresh takes on funeral urns and a creative response to being doxed – all in your weekly dispatch

China Focus: Going digital for going popular -- Tech empowers traditional Chinese culture-

For more than a century, the Library Cave, or Cave 17 of the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, in Northwest China's Gansu province, has been famous for its extraordinary collection of relics and a tale that has had its share of twists and turns.

China Focus: China beefs up cultural relic protection with digital technology-