Christie’s has described the Song dynasty (960-1279) artwork as “one of the world’s rarest Chinese paintings ... with sales of diamonds, paintings, and ancient ceramics shattering ...

By the Sung Dynasty, 12th century A.D., the Chinese had totally mastered ... to calligraphy, to painting, to connoisseurship in ancient paintings. After I finished my B.A. degree in 1962, I ...

Here a long scroll of the "Along the River During the Qingming Festival," an iconic painting of Northern Song Dynasty (960-1126 ... a masterpiece of ancient Chinese painting and a classic ...

Painted in a style that called back to the golden era of Buddhist art during Tang dynasty, thick lines ... The post How an Ancient Chinese Painting Helped Me Understand My Place in America ...

The director of the Musée Cernuschi shares the story behind its Shanghai exhibition of Chinese paintings — and the man at the ...

Genghis Khan's grandson, Kublai Khan, defeated the Chinese Southern Song in 1279, and for the first time all of China was under foreign rule. In 1271 Kublai Khan named his dynasty Yuan which ...

Anyone who has enjoyed a mainland period-piece drama knows the significant role cosmetics played in the lives of ancient Chinese elites ... during the Tang dynasty (618-907).

Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that ... now much more portable (and smaller). During the Sung ...

The Wuchang Uprising was an armed rebellion against the ruling Qing dynasty that took place in Wuchang on Oct. 10, 1911, ...

Submerged beneath a manmade lake in China lies a forgotten city ... Shi Cheng is thought to have been built during the Eastern Han Dynasty between 25AD and 200AD. It was once a political and ...

Here a long scroll of the "Along the River During the Qingming Festival," an iconic painting of Northern Song Dynasty (960-1126 ... a masterpiece of ancient Chinese painting and a classic ...