Ji Ruiqin displays a piece of glazed tile made by Anhe Glazed Tile Company, November 16, 2022. (Photo by Chen Jian/China Pictorial)Born in 1951, Ji Ruiqin is a native of Beijing. When she was young, she did many kinds of jobs and made the “first bucket of gold,” which helped her and her husband la...

Timothy James BrookTimothy James Brook(Chinesename: 卜正民; born January 6, 1951) is a Canadianhistorian, sinologist, and writer specializing in the study ofChina(sinology). He holds the Republic of China Chair, Department of History,University of British Columbia...

Operating the traditional wooden loom requires the collaboration of two artisans.[Photo provided to China Daily]Among China's myriad forms of silk products, one of them — yunjin — remained shrouded in mystery for more than a millennium. Historically reserved exclusively for imperial use,...

Li Jiacheng is revered as one of the most influential businessmen in China as well as in Asia. Nicknamed “Superman”, the 94-year-old Chinese entrepreneur is the richest person in Hong Kong, with an estimated net wealth of US$36.2 billion (as of 2022). His companies were involved in real estate, po...

Yang Zhenning is one of the most famous Chinese scientists. He is a theoretical physicist whose research with Tsung-Dao Lee, a Chinese-American physicist, disproved the law of conservation of parity, concerning the interactions of fundamental nuclear particles. The pair shared the 1957 Nobel Prize i...

Wind, Zhu Legeng's work on display at his one-man exhibition,Creating in Inheritance, at the Chinese Traditional Culture Museum in Beijing.[Photo provided to China Daily]Decadeslong experimentation sees master craftsman evolve techniques to give his work another dimension, Lin Qi rep...