Many readers have surely visited the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. There, a simple chest is preserved—made of dark, somewhat ...

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

Ancient Chinese genre painting as a unique art form has been endowed with a relatively broad developing space since the Song Dynasty. For the autumn, the Guimet is inviting visitors to experience the ...

Implementing a unique combination of traditional Chinese ... painting technique. We rigorously follow the clothing, architecture, environment and other elements of the late Ming Dynasty, to ...

Sponsor to Zheng He, the Ming ... silk and porcelain. Although he is often described as an explorer, Zheng He did not set out primarily on voyages of discovery. During the Song dynasty, the ...

A small shard of porcelain, dating from the Ming Dynasty (1520 ... between Jews and the Chinese date back to the 11th century, when Jewish merchants traveling along the Silk Road established ...

He was born in 1470, the third son of Emperor Chenghua, the eighth of the Ming Dynasty, and his mother ... located on the northern frontier along the Silk Road), who had seized the Chinese city of ...

Those qualities began to emerge very clearly during the Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.), when Chinese artisans perfected ... and provided an inexpensive alternative to silk as a ground material for ...

according to a statement from the Chinese government. The twin wrecks, which date to the Ming dynasty (1368 to 1644), sit less than a mile (1.5 kilometers) off the coast of Sanya, a city on China ...

Editor’s note: “Fair Ladies — Digital Representations of Ancient Chinese ... Ming and Qing dynasties also saw the continuation of the trend toward secularization in the themes of court lady paintings.