The British Museum has received a historic donation of 1,700 Chinese ceramics valued at around 1 billion pounds. Donated by ...

C.T. Loo turned out to be a fascinating and contradictory character in the history of Chinese art in the West. Born in Lujiadu to a scholarly family in Zhejiang province, south of Shanghai ...

The art and archaeology of the ancient Near East and Egypt ... Thematic introduction to the role of painting in Chinese cultural history, with attention to the interaction of stylistic standards, ...

Chinese arts and crafts enjoy a unique reputation in the history of material culture and civilisation. For several thousand years, crafts have echoed the rhythm of daily life in China. From rural ...

The British Museum is to receive the highest-value gift in UK museum history as it acquires £1 billion worth of Chinese ...

Chinese lacquer art has a history of eight thousand years. Where did it come from? What did it go through? China Daily invited Xenia, a designer from the Netherlands, to find out more from Professor ...

“This remarkable result makes it the highest priced Chinese work of art sold at auction worldwide this year ... Chow also ...

NOVA: As a curator of Asian art, you must have a keen ... is a much younger country than India and China, which each have several thousand years' history. On the other hand, you also do not ...

From sculptor Yin Xiuzhen's retrospective to Issy Wood's big show of small paintings, here are five shows opening this week ...

In the history of Chinese writing the number of characters that contained a phonetic element grew progressively, but Chinese never abandoned the principle of one character per word (or at least one ...

From the Jin Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Xu Xi's family were expert in the art of healing ... of traditional Chinese and Western medicine in the history of acupuncture.

Readings and discussions focus on major issues in art history and East Asian studies. Topics may vary each time the course is offered. No knowledge of the Chinese language is required. The course ...