Ljiljana Stevic gives a lecture to Chinese language lovers at the Confucius Institute in the University of Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina, July 2, 2022. Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)'s second sinology department at the University of Banja Luka, scheduled to open in early October, will creat...

During the Southern Song, artists and connoisseurs who wished to express their emotional responses to paintings frequently added poems to them. Empress Yang's poems appear on a number of paintings by such court artists as Ma Yuan (active ca. 1190–1225) and Ma Lin (active ca. 1180–after 1256);...

For people interested in learning more about the ethnic Miao culture, an ideal place to experience it is an ethnic Miao community in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Guizhou Province.Named Qianhu, translated 1,000 households in English, this 2,000-year-old ru...

An actor's identity, location, and current or future activity are told through movement and pantomime, sometimes accompanied by music. All movements on stage are governed by convention and strict rules. An actor cannot improvise or move as he or she chooses.Since there are few props in Peking Op...

When the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) celebrated its 80th birthday late last month, Colin Mackerras （马克林） sat quietly in his house more than 8,000 km away in Brisbane, Australia, thumbing through the old photos.In a black-and-white photo, he stood among a group of young people wear...

This spare, enigmatic scene represents a revolutionary redirection in Chinese painting. Zhao Mengfu reduces his "painted" landscape to a set of calligraphic brush conventions, with the rocks executed in "flying-white" cursive and the pines outlined in unmodulated seal script. He...