
Triton-shaped Tang sancai horn cups—Silk Road Hellenism poured into Chinese ceramic myth.

A Fahua Tower, half of the history of Jiading. At the confluence of Lianqi River and Hengli River in the center of Jiading Ancient City in Shanghai, stands the ...

Portuguese ships on Momoyama gold leaf—when Japanese screen painters first pictured “the West.”

Professor Rong Xinjiang of Peking University once gave a series of lectures entitled "Looking for Dunhuang all over the world" at the China National S...

For many tourists, the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, Hawaii is a getaway for a tropical beach vacation, but for Hawaii's residents, it's a trea...

Conservator Zhang Qing on Chengxintang paper: restoration craft and how historic paper is used again.

Ritual tripods and household lamps—how bronze shaped ceremony and everyday light in early China.

The oldest monumental religious building in ancient India, the stupa houses the Buddha's relics and teachings, often decorated with snakes and trees. "...

Zhang Kan’s Hunting and Riding at the Freer—reading Khitan and Jurchen clues in one handscroll.

Appreciation: how Ming–Qing figure painters made faces, gesture, and social life feel present.

Guan Sheng and Wen Chu in Qianlong’s collection: how court catalogs kept two painting names alive.

1,658 ancient monuments and famous inscriptions named in the first national cultural relics catalog.