Chinese pottery worth £1 billion will be gifted to the British Museum – the most valuable gift in UK history. The museum, in ...

Trustees of the Sir Percival David Foundation to donate 1,700 pieces of Chinese ceramics to the London museum Vases dating ...

During the next century, Christians perished in China completely. With the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907, China once again ...

88-89, no.37. Compare with a similar gilt-bronze figure of Guanyin, Ming dynasty, illustrated in Gems of Beijing Cultural Relics Series: Buddhist Statues I, Beijing, 2001, p.79, pl.39. See also a ...

Xu Haofeng and Xu Jenfeng’s martial arts feature sports flashy fights and fabulous costumes, but doesn’t have a particularly ...

With more than three decades of yurt-building experience, Ban estimates that this yurt has stood the test of time for over a ...

The history of Wang Mang, a Han dynasty minister and imperial cousin who later founded his own short-lived dynasty, resonates across time In the ancient Chinese calendar, the year corresponding to AD1 ...

An exhibition of Chinese mural art — presented for the first time overseas at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris — allowed ...

In three visits to London between 1899 and 1901, the French Impressionist, then approaching 60 years of age, embarked upon one of the most ambitious series of penetrating paintings ever undertaken ...

A show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago challenges the timeworn critics’ contention that painting is dead, expanding the idea of what painting can be. By Jane L. Levere This article is ...

Beijing is pushing to internationalise the yuan, which ranks fourth in global payments according to the global bank messaging network SWIFT, and challenge the U.S. dollar, by far the world's most ...