Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

Hidden in downtown Memphis, the Belz Museum of Asian & Judaic Art offers a stunning journey through jade sculptures and ...

Each piece of jade is one-of-a-kind and has a definite character. Both jadeite and nephrite ... such as the bi disc pendants that represent the Chinese symbol for eternity. The symbol has a ...

The main procedures of jade carving, handed down throughout thousands of years, include qie (cutting), cuo (grinding), zhuo (carving) and mo (polishing). These four Chinese characters form a ...

he does “not deal with jade for its own sake, but as a means to a certain end; it merely forms the background, the leading motive, for the exposition of some fundamental ideas of Chinese ...

The jade has been bequeathed to the British Museum, as has the lion’s share of his collection of early blue and white Chinese porcelain ... s spoke more of his character, and its subtlety ...