Exactly 124 years ago Southend welcomed its first professional tattoo artist who set up shop in the town, eager to put his ink stamp on the bodies of men, women and possibly sometimes even children.

As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

Growers often train branches to grow into desired shapes by wrapping them first with protective raffia, then with bonsai wire that is bent into formation. This must be done gently so as not to damage ...

Ancient art, stark beauty, crumbling architecture - and aching calves - are all encountered on a trek through Ladakh's Markha ...

Snakes weren’t always “little dragons.” In early Chinese cultures, they were powerful symbols of vitality and strength in ...

An often overlooked, yet highly impactful world cinema industry in the last few decades, Chinese cinema remains widely known ...

From mythical guardians to symbols of transformation and terror, the snake has slithered its way into the annals of art ...

Liu Qilan used to be a kindergarten teacher in Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province in southern China. About two years ago, she returned to her rural hometown in Rongjiang county to launch a community ...

Its preservation has earned it the moniker of a “time capsule,” a window into the cultural and historical richness of ancient China ... employed state-of-the-art 3D scanning technology ...

Someone once described the fair to director Helen Allen as “a galaxy of colliding worlds,” and she says that description particularly apt.