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Incensed: Culture mavens inhale history
May 05, 2014
IN a recent TV series, a young Mao Zedong (1893-1976) collects a handful of blessed incense ash from a Buddhist temple in hopes of
Touch of glass: Simplicity without Chinese cliches
May 05, 2014
FOR glassmaker Wang Qin, Oriental luxury does not glitter and does not contain clichéd “Chinese elements” such
Shaking up dated still-lifes and injecting new vigor
May 05, 2014
STILL-LIFE painting seems dated today, but Wang Yuhong creates updated still-lifes using photography, printing and brush strokes t
‘The simplest curve is the hardest to draw ... this is self-cultivation’
May 05, 2014
HU Jianjun is a master of traditional line drawing, holding a brush for several hours at a time, meticulously creating perfect, si
‘I reflecting certain frozen moments in urban life’
May 05, 2014
THE hometown of sculptor Li Chuhui is the same as that of Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Prize Winner in Literature — Gaomi in Shand
Innovation to star at Chinese opera fest
May 05, 2014
THE annual monthlong festival of traditional Chinese opera at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center has cultivated a lot of young enthu
Local cooks reveal old-time recipes
May 05, 2014
Xiasha shaomai Zheng Yuxia only opens her restaurant in Xiasha Town for four months a year and she only sells steamed dumplings o
Sweet and savory crepes for every palate
May 05, 2014
Crepes, those exquisitely thin pancakes, are a French favorite that originated in Brittany during the Middle Ages. The terraine w
Fortune Cookie offers US-style Chinese food
May 05, 2014
Few things might seem as crazy as opening a Chinese takeout restaurant that is completely American style in Shanghai. But David R
Delights of dumpling diversity
May 05, 2014
MANY Chinese food lovers say the beauty and variety of Chinese dumplings often is lost in translation. Nearly all stuffed foods i
