Event Search: China

Set to be China's largest televised music concert, Show of Peace promotes world harmony to viewers across the globe. Performers including Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page perform to crowds at…

The JZ Music Festival Shanghai invites big names in the jazz world to take to the stage at venues in the Chinese city. Covering all genres of jazz, expect to see both national and…

Experimental music fans discover new sounds at the Jazz-E Festival. Swing artists and DJs combine jazz melodies and electronic beats to form a new music genre: electro-jazz. The fusion…

Delve into Beijing's underground arts scene at the Jue Music + Art Festival. Alternative art exhibitions, theatre and music concerts inject life into January's grey wintry days at venues…

Legendary rock event Midi Music Festival returns to Beijing for the May bank holiday. Crowds gather around open-air stages in Haidian Park for a packed weekend of live performances by guitar…

INTRO ('Ideas Need To Reach Out'), an outdoor electronic music festival, takes place in Beijing's D-Park Plaza. Against the dramatic backdrop of a Bauhaus-designed power station dating from…

The grassy plains of Zhangbei, Hebei province become the stage for Chinese and international rock bands during the three-day InMusic Festival. Rock fanatics converge and camp under vast, open…

Aimed at kids and families but open to all, Hong Kong's six-week Arts Carnival covers a huge range of performing and visual arts. Around 200,000 people attend the 400 performances at major…

With the Great Wall of China as a dramatic backdrop, Chinese and international musicians take centrestage at the Great Wall Tanglewood Music Festival, organised by Modern Sky records. There…

The Star Live in Dongcheng is Beijing's only middle-sized venue, providing the intimacy of a smaller gig with the capacity to host bigger names. Local rock 'n' roll stars and international…

Most definitely a scene, Club 97 is the funkiest, gay-friendly nightspot in Hong Kong and well worth checking out regardless of your particular persuasion. This ironically-titled Friday night…

Beijing Opera, or Peking Opera, is the most celebrated of the 300-400 different opera styles in China. There are modern theatres dedicated to this ancient art form (such as Liyuan Theatre)…

An upmarket pool hall, Central's Racks Billiards Club models itself on a tasteful Manhattan bar. Cocktails are served to well-heeled businessfolk and trend-setters who lounge on leather sofas…

Yumla is a basement bar in Central that draws in the cool alternative-music crowd. Local and international DJs play an assortment of electro, hip hop, jungle, dubstep and more. Its regularly…

Suzie Wong's in Chaoyang harks back to 1930s Shanghai but with a post modern feel. A young and beautiful crowd lie on Ming Dynasty beds and dance to sexy house. Many a cross-cultural romance…

The CD Jazz Cafe is Beijing's premier jazz venue, originally established by famous Chinese saxophonist Liu Yuan. Although now under different management, it still draws expats and music-loving…

At the forefront of contemporary art, performance and music, Central's laid-back Fringe Club packs many events into its small space. The main bar has live bands every weekend and art…

Young, cool and casual with an industrial décor, Xiongmao in the city's Wuhou District serves individual cocktails - rare in Chengdu clubs. Play a game of pool, chat with friends or dance to…

Definitely one for the dance addicts, neon and mirrors are the order of the day at Babyface West in the Xicheng District. Don your best dancing gear and get stuck in to the latest techno…

Step through Cloudnine's heavenly walkway, lose your inhibitions and get crooning at one of Hong Kong's trendiest karaoke spots. The front bar plays hip-hop videos, but the real karaoke…