What happens when Western art encounters Chinese ink painting? To answer this question, China Daily invited Russian ...

Geng, R.Y. (2025) A Contemporary Study on “Describing Objects as They Like” of Portrait Bricks in the Han Dynasty through the Lens of Museum Aesthetic Education. Open Access Library Journal, 12, 1-10.

The Story of the Kernel Carving Boat is an essay most Chinese would have read in their middle-school textbooks. The essay, written by Wei Xueyi, a scholar during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), vividly ...

In 221 BCE, King Ying Zheng of Qin conquered the rival warring states and established the Qin empire as Qin Shi Huangdi (The ...

According to Chinese tradition, Chinese civilization is 5,000 years old, though the ancient China of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou ...

This is not merely a bronze horse from nearly 2,000 years ago — it transcends the title of a masterpiece of art. For the ...

The howling of wind and pounding of hooves, the battle cries and clinking of cold glistening sword, the solemn chanting of ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's engaging "Recasting the Past" exhibition looks at the antiquarian spirit in China since the 12th century.

An exhibition celebrating Italian-crafted silk inspired by Chinese cultural heritage is drawing art enthusiasts to Malaysia’s southern region. The Silk of Virtue Exhibition, running until 31 March at ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The phrase “moveable feast” often brings to mind the title of Ernest Hemingway’s memoir about his ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei. Historians do not know her birth name or in what year she was ...