Ancient chinese art

An artist in Beijing is turning garbage into beautiful, recycled masterpieces – proving that art can be created out of anything. Here's the story of Zhao Xiaoli, as she shares where she finds her inspiration, and what she hopes people take away from her work.

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Written by Gioia Zhang Unlike the three-dimensional structure of Western lingerie, Chinese ancient lingerie is made up of layers and it implicitly shapes the rich curve of the female body. From the…

Chinese Landscape Painting "Guantao Tu" by Yuan Jiang (About 1671 — 1746), now is preserved in Shanghai Museum.

To most of the western world, China has always been a mystery, a teeming mass of people in crowded cities, threatening to expand over its borders impelled by its own growth. In fact, while the Han Chinese are the majority of the population, there are over fifty officially recognized ethnic…

We move now from Germany to ancient China, to two of the most famous gay couples in Chinese history and the sources of some of the most recognizable queer symbols in China: the bitten peach and the torn sleeve. While these are not common symbols in most Western media, it is used in China as code phrases for relationships between two men. Though the stories may have been slightly distorted throughout the years, both are still very important parts of queer history.