An opera based on a book by Chinese author Hong Ying received its world premiere in London on Nov 1, with the help of two ...

There Chinese writing traditional stands out for its style vertical writingin columns from top to bottom. This practice, ...

Beijing’s preferred form of ethnic minority culture is a sanitized simulacrum featuring plays, theme parks, and other ...

Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking ...

There is not a ton of evidence of what education looked like in ancient society, but we do know it existed - although not for ...

Oracle bones were often made from tortoise shells, as in this photograph, and from the shoulder blades of oxen. According to ...

Lei's one-man exhibition at the National Art Museum of China marks his endeavors through seven decades of Chinese calligraphy ...

"Walking in Dunhuang made us feel as if we had crossed a thousand years, and we experienced the power of Chinese cultural ...

Ma, the Met curator, was introduced to the artist in 2010, but she had admired her calligraphy since childhood. “I grew up in Taipei, and I remember that we had a catalog of hers,” Ma recalled. “At ...

They were also influenced culturally by China and Japan — adopting the Chinese writing system, for example ... Upon visiting ...

Italian researchers suggest that symbols from the oldest writing system in the world may have come directly from cylinder seal motifs.