Art
The Beijing Independent Film Festival, organized and supported by the Li Xianting Film Fund, has been chugging along in fits and starts since its humble beginnings in 2004.
News
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has inspired countless hours of television and cinema, from X-Files to Silence of the Lambs.
Art
Forty years on, a new arrogance continues to complicate the narrative of Africa as China encroaches — physically, socially, and economically — on its soil.
News
The Chinese government might be relaxing its censorious attitude toward Ai Weiwei.
In Brief
The Great Wall was once China's most fearsome defense.
In Brief
The Great Wall was once China's most fearsome defense.
News
If you're an artist living in China, take some advice from the example of Dai Jianyong: don't make potty jokes about the president.
News
Four archaeologists were among nearly 200 people from six Chinese provinces recently arrested for raiding ancient tombs and selling an estimated $80 million worth of antiquities on the black market, the Beijing Times reported.
News
Controversy has erupted over two replicas of important heritage sites in China, a country famous for its many reproductions of other nations' famous structures.
Art
The most outrageous action sequence in the new blockbuster Furious Seven ends with Vin Diesel and Paul Walker plowing a car through a platoon of clay figures that look just like China’s Terracotta Army.
Art
As the last generation of Chinese women with bound feet ages into their final decades, Jo Farrell set out to photograph the survivors of this brutal beauty tradition.
Art
The connection between contemporary quantum physics and China's ancient Terracotta Warriors is a lost pigment called Han purple. The vibrant hue appeared in the Zhou dynasty and faded out sometime near 220 AD; art didn't see a purple as vivid until 19th-century manufacturing.