Leah Ke Yi Zheng never intended to be an artist. Growing up in China, she studied with a traditional painter, who taught her ...

The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were smuggled into the United States in the 1940s. Scholars say they provide remarkable insights ...

The parts of the manuscript returning to China are Wuxing Ling and Gongshou Zhan, known by scholars as Volumes II and III.

In the predawn hours of Sunday, a commercial flight from Washington D.C. touched down in Beijing carrying an extraordinary ...

Two volumes of 2,300-year-old silk books – the earliest known in China – arrived in Beijing from the United States in the ...

The museum’s fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were looted from a tomb in Hunan Province and smuggled into the US ...

To start with Chinese knotting, you need a few basic tools: cords made of silk or nylon, a pair of scissors, and sometimes ...

Other protective rituals include placing bundles of mugwort and calamus above doorways. Mugwort and calamus serve both ...

The silk manuscripts, containing more than 900 Chinese characters, are the earliest examples of silk text discovered to date ...

In 2018, construction work on a road in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province in northern China, led to an unexpected ...

The silk manuscripts were unearthed in 1942 from the Zidanku site in Changsha, Hunan Province, and were illegally taken to ...

Wuxing Ling consists of lunar month illustrations paired with explanatory texts, recording seasonal taboos and auspicious ...