The Nine Dragons Wall at Beihai Park in Beijing, China. NOVA: The dragon seems to be a popular motif in Chinese art. What is its significance? Wu: Well, the Chinese have regarded themselves as the ...

Christie’s has described the Song dynasty (960-1279) artwork as “one of the world’s rarest Chinese paintings”. Entitled Wood and Rock, the ink-on-paper handscroll depicts a dragon-like old ...

Shela Yu's dreamy, vibrant murals are all over metro Phoenix. But the Arizona-born-and-raised muralist didn't always think ...

A stunning discovery in China is shaking up what we thought we knew about human evolution. Scientists have uncovered a ...

Hosokawa went to Beijing in November 2019 to study dragon paintings by Chen Rong, a Chinese painter from the Southern Song dynasty, and also visited temples in Kyoto and Shiga prefectures to ...

is the renowned hometown of the Chinese folk art for crafting festive dragons and lions. The history of dragon and lion crafting and performances in Shuangfeng can be traced back to the late Qing ...

In a recent article for The Atlantic, David Frum labeled China a paper dragon, a sly reference to Mao Zeodong’s use of the term “paper tiger.” China, according to Frum, appears to be ...

At an ancient Tang Dynasty site in Hebei Province, south of Beijing, archaeologists discovered a rare ceramic sculpture. Siyi via Unsplash Seven years into excavations at a Tang Dynasty site in ...