This pair of Qing dynasty tigers (dating circa 1850) are carved in a style characteristic of later Chinese statuary: minimal surface decoration, low-relief carvings of abstracted forms such as ...

The Mountain Resort (the Qing dynasty's summer palace), in Hebei Province, was built between 1703 and 1792. It is a vast complex of palaces and administrative and ceremonial buildings. Temples of ...

Chu accused others of forgetting their roots, playing games with the descendants of the Yan and Huang emperors — a reference to the inheritors of Han Chinese culture — and mixing up the concepts of a ...

In a significant step for cross-cultural literary exchange, Dream of the Red Chamber, a famous 18th-century Chinese novel, ...

Dream of the Red Chamber, Cao Xueqin's classic about the rise and decline of a family that is also a portrayal of its ...