As Lunar New Year approaches, the once-endangered folk tradition of stilt walking is undergoing something of a revival in China — with Beijing’s encouragement.
But the snake in Chinese culture is not just a divine or benevolent figure. It also represents duality–wisdom and danger, good and evil. This dual nature is reflected in numerous Chinese legends, ...
At Wang Chunjing's stall in Harbin, children gasp as they watch her create lifelike creatures out of molten maltose in ...
Golden threads dance between silver needles, threading vitality into the intricate snake-pattern embroidered fan in the warm ...
In China’s Greatest Treasures, BBC art historian Alastair Sooke travels through modern day China to discover that much of ...
The high jewellery maison celebrates the Chinese zodiac in ‘Serpenti Infinito’, a Shanghai exhibition that traces how the ...
Ann Arbor’s Ann-Hua Association organized a Lunar New Year event Saturday, drawing 200 attendees to Briarwood Mall to ring in ...
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