William Shakespeare, the renowned British playwright whose dramas are known across the world; and Tang Xianzu, the famed ancient Chinese opera writer with his works passed on through generations. What ...
L ate in his career, the English poet W. H. Auden distilled the whole business of poetry into three pungent lines: “A poet’s hope: to be, / like some valley cheese, / local, b ...
"Roars the Yangtze River, sweeping everything eastward; the currents surge, in an unremitting way just like the emergence and disappearance of these luminous figures in history," chanted Ming Dynasty ...
Eggshell carving is a traditional folk art from Xinle, Hebei Province. Usually practiced in the spring, artisans use over 10 different techniques to carve intricate patterns on delicate eggshells.
Tang China, a cosmopolitan dynasty: the Musée Guimet's exotic exhibition The Musée Guimet takes us back to the China of the Tang Empire, to discover its rich capital, Chang'an. From November 20, 2024 ...
A production fusing traditional Chinese opera with Western classical music took place in London in October, with a performance inspired by the life of Cai Lun, the man credited with the invention of ...
Lu, C. (2024) Using Poetry as a Context: On the Imaging of Poetic Context in Wang Changling’s Poetry. Open Access Library Journal, 11, 1-8. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1112273 .
Crisply carved as an Immortal clad in long flowing robes, with jovial expression and a tuft of hair issuing from the back of his bald head, in his right hand a broom and a plaque with the characters ...