The Chinese porcelain dishes and figurines that first ... Image A silk evening dress from 1934 reflects the role of “Dragon Lady” that Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American star in ...

work in porcelain, surrounded by rapturous nature. He carefully shapes and polishes the figurines — a snail, an owl, a tiny dragon — that she then hand-colors with Swiss-watch precision ...

China's long, unbroken civilizational memory is not merely a matter of dynasties, philosophy, or porcelain. It breathes in its festivals - time-tested, people-bound rituals that persist even as the ...

work in porcelain, surrounded by rapturous nature. He carefully shapes and polishes the figurines — a snail, an owl, a tiny dragon — that she then hand-colors with Swiss-watch precision ...