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A 700-year-old Chinese painting sold Thursday for nearly $40 million after a marathon 75-minute bidding war — the “longest in living memory.” The 6.6-feet scroll, titled “Five Drunken Princes ...

The digital reconstruction of Emperor Wu's face (left), alongside a painting made of him from the 'Thirteen Emperors Scroll' (right). Pianpian Wei et al. In 1996, a team of archaeologists discovered ...

A finely carved large spinach-green jade immortals brush pot, a rare celadon and russet jade quail and millet boulder, and a carved limestone head of a bodhisattva, are among more than 300 Chinese ...

In 1903, seemingly inexplicably, an American woman painted a 15-foot-tall portrait of China’s Empress Dowager Cixi, the last empress of the Qing dynasty, the lineage of hereditary rulers that governed ...

It is an exhibition eight years in the making, Clarissa von Spee beginning work on it when she was a curator at The British Museum in London. And now, on another continent, “China’s Southern Paradise: ...

In the Confucian ideology that pervaded traditional Chinese society for more than two thousand years, women did not determine the course of their own lives. In most regards, they were subservient to ...