The Shang Dynasty’s royals used bronze ritual vessels to commune with their ancestors and help keep the state in order.: Their designs became increasingly dramatic
One of the best history buzzes I got in China was walking on the ancient walls of the great ancient city Zhengzhou. The wall in
Chinese have traditionally seen themselves as rooted in the Shang Dynasty. So you can’t get more foundational than the Shang and its roots. We’ll get
Beijing’s thriving modern art scene converged in a big old ugly factory that East Germans built. Artists found it to be a cheap and private
Agricultural ways of life, which China’s Confucian tradition has honored, became common along the great rivers during the Yangshao period around 5000 BCE–4,500 years before
The concept de had a wide range of meanings in ancient China, which together encouraged assumptions of a highly resonant universe which was conducive to
You can see a lot of intellectual depth in traditional Chinese architecture. It’s one of the world’s most prevalent art forms, so it’s easy
Many traditional cultures structure their thought around the four cardinal directions. Ancient China did too, but it added ideas to this perspective and created a blend
A temple a little north of Dali Old Town, Yunnan immersed me in China from imperial times. I walked through its village’s narrow streets
Traditional Chinese painting has often been based on assumptions that a highly resonant whole is primary in nature and society. It hasn’t focused on linear