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

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

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

A cultural artifact is seen on display at the "Ink Splendor and Cultural Context: Gansu Silk Road Art Treasures Exhibition" at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing on May 25, 2025. /IC ...

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

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

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

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

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

The National Museum of Asian Art @smithsonian has returned Zidanku Silk Manuscript Vol. II and III—the earliest known Chinese silk texts and the only surviving silk manuscripts from China’s ...

The parts of the three-volume manuscript that have been returned to China are Wuxing Ling and Gongshou Zhan, known by ...

This photo taken on May 16, 2025 shows China ancient silk manuscripts from Warring States period at the Chinese Embassy in ...