Drawing of a cross-section of Kowloon Walled City before its destruction in 1993.
Drawing of a cross-section of Kowloon Walled City before its…
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Top: A bronze zodiacal sphere upon an ornate dragon…
Top: A bronze zodiacal sphere upon an ornate dragon stand.
Bottom: An Azimuthal Horizon, Sextant and Zodiacal Sphere.
At the Ancient Observatory, Peking. Photographs ca. 1860, now available online as part of Wellcome Images.
Chen Chun-Hao makes traditional Chinese landscape paintings…
Chen Chun-Hao makes traditional Chinese landscape paintings using a nail gun.
Pictured above is his Imitating Fan Kuan’s Travelers Among Mountains and Streams, composed of 750,000 headless nails.
Painting of a Miao woman in traditional attire; by Zhao Chun….
“Military Mandarin of the Second Rank”, nineteenth century illustration from “Chin
Flooded rice fields in Yuanyuang, Southern China. Photo by George Doupas.
There are some strange things happening in the Gobi Desert. Here are some Google maps links.
A staff member at the University of Michigan’s Centre for Chinese Studies was sorting through
A staff member at the University of Michigan’s Centre for Chinese Studies was sorting through boxes in a storage room, and found fifteen hand-made papercut propaganda posters dating from China’s Cultural Revolution.
Here are a few of them. The university has a gallery of all of them, including high-resolution images.
The Mausoleum of Liu Qi, Xi’an. Asia Obscura states that Liu Qi was Emperor of China from 156
The Mausoleum of Liu Qi, Xi’an.
Asia Obscura states that Liu Qi was Emperor of China from 156 to 141 BC; his tomb took 28 years to build.
“Everbody must hate the enemy, defenses must be constructed step-by-step, fortifications must be str