This is a strange place to have a revelation. I’m sitting in a movie theatre in Pingyao, Shanxi Province, China. I have shrunken into a cosy corporate space which, once the house lights are put out, ...

Jia Zhangke at the closing ceremony of the 7th Pingyao International Film Festival PYIFF Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke is relieved that the festival he founded in the ancient walled city of Pingyao in ...

Ma’s Grand Family Compound, one of the 3749 ancient residential buildings in the Ancient City of Pingyao, North China’s Shanxi province, is the former residence of Ma Zhongxuan, one of Pingyao’s four ...