
Taipei revisits Ming writer Wang Shizhen—and the revenge legend around Plum in the Golden Vase.

From shared aesthetics to museum loans—how China–Japan exchange looks in objects and exhibitions.

Tea paintings and tea books across dynasties—how “second spring” taste entered the picture plane.

Ming Dynasty calligrapher and painter Chen Hongshou (1598-1652), known as Laolian, has a profound influence on the history of Chinese figure painting. His perso...

Who can portray an object so vividly, even as if it were real? The ancient Greek painter Zeuxis painted grapes attracting birds; his colleague and rival Parrhas...

Chen Hongshou (1598-1652), courtesy name Zhanghou, nicknamed Laolian, was a native of Zhuji, Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang Province in the Ming Dynasty. Mr. Lu ...

The Summer Resort, also known as Rehe Palace and Luanyang Palace, was built in the 42nd year of Kangxi (1703). It is not only the most extensive of the royal ga...

Frost and turning leaves—autumn mountains as the Palace Museum paints the Autumn Equinox.

Song painting and calligraphy reunited—Li Bai Xingyin and Five Horses on view again in Tokyo.

From Nanxun Hall Song consort images to how historical writing names—and erases—“they.”

In the Binyang Middle Cave of the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, Henan, the relief sculpture of the "Emperor and Empress's Ritual to Buddha" was ori...

Behind the remade Emperor and Empress Buddha procession—real hands restoring Longmen’s ritual stone.