To tai chi master Guo Huaisheng, music floats from a guqin (a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family) like mist while melodies run from a piano like rainfall. "A great ...

All throughout May, WTOP is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with stories about the people and places shaping the D.C. region. One of the oldest, most identifiable sounds ...

The name sounds interesting enough -- even intriguing: The 12 Girls Band. And from China, at that. And when the curtain went up at UCLA’s Royce Hall on Thursday night for the ensemble’s debut Los ...

Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens in San Clemente is celebrating Chinese American artists for the Lunar New Year, including two performances by world-renowned Chinese zither performer Bei Bei ...

It may be the year of the snake, but David Boody students’ lunar New Year performance drew no hisses. Two hundred kids from the Avenue S intermediate school’s extracurricular programs celebrated the ...

Black ink drips from the tip of a brush and daggers into clear water, spiraling out like smoke; a Chinese zither sounds a ferocious, twanging note that warps and buckles in its sustain; rain mottles ...

WOMEN wearing long wigs and ornate traditional dresses milled around a pebbled courtyard, stopping to snap photos under a pavilion, as the melodious strumming of the Chinese zither played in the ...