A scene from The Peony Pavilion by the Shanghai Kunqu Opera ... who has long been promoting the country's art to the world — ...

Guó huà, meaning ‘national painting’ in Chinese, is a traditional style of ... Each flower and bird carry symbolic meanings, such as the peony for wealth or the bamboo for resilience.

“Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900,” now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, aims to change this. In an ambitious array of some 200 artworks spanning eight ...

It has been 50 years since the career of one of the major post-war figures in Chinese art was cut short by his death in Hong Kong. Lui Shou-kwan, who worked for the municipal government in ...

A small blue ghost clambers over the exposed shoulders of the legendary folk deity Zhong Kui in the opening artwork of “Qi Baishi: Inspiration in Ink,” now at the Asian Art Museum here and ...

It was the capital of nine dynasties starting from around 770 B.C. The Chinese government has paid ... except for the peony. This enraged the empress, who ordered the peony degraded and moved ...

A scene from The Peony Pavilion by the Shanghai ... who has long been promoting the country's art to the world — specifically, the way to convey Chinese culture on the world's top stages through ...