Powerlong Museum, among the latest additions to Shanghai's private art destinations, stands alone in the metropolis' far southwestern Minhang district. Many other such institutions, such as the Long Museum, Yuz Museum and Shanghai Center of Photography, are found in the well-known West Bund area, closer to the city center.
Two years ago, Chinese painter Zhang Yanzi traveled to the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, and found the local brew ayahuasca, which is made from plants and is said to have hallucinogenic properties. The drink is used in spiritual medicine there.
In one of Beijing-based ink painter Kang Chunhui's works, titled Respect, she depicts in the middle of the paper a nest above which rests a mother bird and below which, there are three of her children who are wide opening their mouths.
The oil painting 29.01.64, created by Chinese-French painter Zao Wou-ki incorporating the kuangcao (wild cursive) style of Chinese calligraphy, fetched HK$ 202.6 million ($26 million) at a Christie's auction Saturday night.
The beauty of the area along the Fuchun River, in central Zhejiang province of East China, has been the subject of many artists, the best known of them being the 14th-century ink painting Dwelling on the Fuchun Mountain.
Chinese paper cutting is one of the oldest handicrafts in China. It varies from animals and plants to the vivid scenes of our everyday lives.
As Nov 25 marks the World Vegetarian Day, here's a look at history of vegetarianism in China and a recommendation of some nice vegetarian restaurants.
Chinese singer Zhou Yanhong recently joined dozens of celebrities at Beijing's Shijia Primary School to unveil a charity project to help left-behind children and underprivileged college students.
One of the most unique and high-pitched sounds often heard in traditional Chinese music comes from the suona, an instrument one musician is trying to preserve. Zhou Dongchao is a suona master in Beijing who has been playing the instrument for nearly 50 years.
On Wednesday, more than 200 teenagers from the Zhejiang Provincial School for Visually-Impaired Students visited Zhejiang Provincial Museum in Hangzhou, where they tried to feel the history of the country, led by their own senses and a curiosity as precious as the antiques.
From sharing bicycle to sharing car, China's sharing economy has now swept into the book industry.
A collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller that shows the couple's wide-ranging interest in art and antiquity will be auctioned in New York in 2018.
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