SHENGFANG, China — The once-endangered folk tradition of stilt walking has staged a dramatic comeback in China, where it is being embraced by young performers eager to find community and ...

More than 120 Gusu (now Suzhou in China's Jiangsu Province) woodcuts from the Kangxi to Yongzheng periods (1661-1735) of the Qing Dynasty (1636-1912), over 1,000 Chinese folk paintings from the ...

To revive the village, Ji'an's Jizhou district adopted a government-guided, market-driven model, upgrading over 120 ancient buildings through public-private partnerships. The local government also ...

Ancient Chinese Folk Epic Published The Story of Darkness, compiled by Hu Chongjun, published by the Changjiang Art Publishing House, 18 yuan (US$2.2) . For Hu Chongjun, who collected stories for ...

The program featured performances of classics accompanied by expert commentary from Wang Jingrong, composer and head of the ...

The Peking Acrobats' ability to perform the astounding is rooted in centuries of Chinese history and folk art. Records of acrobatic acts at court can be found as early as the Ch'in Dynasty (221 ...

Performers wave a straw dragon in Dahan Village of Hancun Township in Qingfeng County, central China's Henan Province, Feb. 14, 2017. The local straw dragon dance was a pray for rain in ancient ...

Originally from Shanghai, China, Master Lu is skilled in various art forms, including stone sculptures and stamp seal carving. Apart from paper-cutting, he practices ancient Chinese art such as ...

The Freer Gallery of Art possesses one of the finest and largest collections of ancient Chinese bronzes outside China. Representing all periods of the Bronze Age, the collection is particularly rich ...