The art of printing has always helped steer the direction of the development of civilizations through creating conditions for the vast dissemination

DIAOLOU is a fortified residential dwelling. It functions both as a house and a fortress.

THE Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese festival which originated from the worship of celestial phenomena

EVERY music band has their own story of how they came together. What brought Route to Diomira (RTD) together was the book Invisible Cities.

Carved lacquerware is a unique Chinese handicraft made by applying many layers of natural lacquer on bases of various shapes and then carving designs on the layers

THE Beijing silk flower evolved from a time-honored craft to make floral hair pins with fine textiles.

WE mentioned the Hanshi Festival last month in the article about the Qingming Festival.

MO Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, is hailed as a writer who merges hallucinatory realism with folk tales

“I want to raise a cat,” said Wang, sitting in the living room, speaking to the air.

THE people who lived on the Loess Plateau in western-central China in the past, when faced with the thickness of the Loess formation often reaching several

QINGMING Festival is a traditional day in China which has a history of over 2,500 years.

THE evergreen Sichuan Province is known as “Nature’s Storehouse” due to its abundance of food and natural resources

CHINA is home to porcelain. There are thousands of art forms related to porcelain in the country. Among these art froms

SIMON Sebag Montefiore is tall, lean and full of energy. Born in London in 1965, he is one of the world’s best-selling authors of history and fiction.