Highlights include ornate calligraphy, exquisite jade carvings, thousand-year-old bronze works and traditional Chinese garb. The Shanghai Museum is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, with last ...

Nor was China, the alleged terminus of the Silk Roads in most versions of its conception, ever the main destination of ...

Other artefacts in the exhibition include jade carvings of human heads from the ... "The Origins of Chinese Civilisation", ...

In 1279, his empire overrun by the invading Mongols, China's last Sung emperor was cast into the sea. Kublai Khan became lord of an empire that stretched from Korea to Mesopotamia. In the ...

Provenance: an English private collection Contact Bonhams Knightsbridge Description: LOT 118Y THREE JADE 'BOY' CARVINGS Late ...

Provenance: an English private collection Contact Bonhams Knightsbridge Description: LOT 117Y THREE JADE 'CAT' CARVINGS Ming/Qing dynasty THREE JADE 'CAT' CARVINGS Ming/Qing dynas ...

At a Neolithic site in northern China, archaeologists have unearthed a large jade dragon inside a 5,000-year-old tomb. The dragon was one of more than 100 artifacts that have been discovered in ...

This is the eighth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

It finds Lara (voiced by Hayley Atwell) abandoning her friends but being drawn back home, where a mysterious Chinese jade stone is stolen from Croft Manor by a thief. Thus, her globe-trotting ...