Self-made billionaire Liu Yiqian didn't hesitate to purchase a million-worth of antiquities at a Beijing sale on Monday, although he has just spent $170 million on a Modigliani nude painting weeks ago.
The collector told Chinese journalists that he agreed to return the statue to China, but demanded to return it to a grand temple instead of a small temple in a village.
A gilt-bronze seated Shakyamuni Buddha figure made in 14th-century's Tibet was sold for 103.5 million yuan ($16 million).
Photo taken on Dec 7, 2015 shows jade items unearthed at the Haihun Marquis tomb dated back to the ancient China's Western Han Dynasty(206 BC - 24 AD) in Nanchang, Jiangxi province.
The 2015 Exhibition of China Contemporary Oil Paintings opens at the Ming Gallery of Art in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu province, Dec 5, 2015.
Contemporary artist Lyu Shengzhong shows how an ancient Chinese craft can be reinterpreted in modern times. Lin Qi reports.
Apart from contribution to the global fight against malaria, TCM also played a vital role in the deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak across China in 2003.
China is expected to top the world in terms of organ donation in several years.
Sotheby's Beijing auction of modern and contemporary Chinese art on Sunday grossed 165 million yuan ($25.8 million).
A new section of the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre will open on Monday, displaying more works themed on that part of the history.
Tian Qinxin's drama Fayuans, based on the novel by Li Ao of the same name and featuring China's short-lived Hundred Days' Reform in 1898, will be on stage till December 20 at Tianqiao Performing Arts Center in Beijing.
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