Though China spends billions every year to boost its soft power abroad, the results are often not encouraging. However, the soft power of Chinese culture is spreading organically without any push from the state thanks to the growing popularity of Chinese online storytelling. Chinese online storytelling The history of online Chinese literature dates back to ...
Chinese handscrolls are made up of long, horizontal pieces of paper attached to wooden rollers. The scrolls are usually rolled up when not in use. When viewing, the left hand unrolls the scroll, while the right hand rolls it up. In height, a handscroll typically measures about 10 to 16 inches. However, they can be ...
Works of art are one thing that visually impaired people usually cannot enjoy. After all, what would one see without his eyes? People without eyesight are thus robbed of the chance to experience some of the finest art pieces of human history. A German sculptor, Egbert Broerken, troubled by the realization that blind people are ...
Chinese art is rich with depictions of nature. In most cases, every flower, plant, or fruit depicted in a work of art will have some meaning as determined by the traditional symbolism attached to it. Knowing what the symbolism means can be a doorway to understanding the true meaning of a specific artwork. For instance, ...
Ni Kuang’s science-fiction prophecy Chasing the Dragon, which was published in 1983, contains the following passage: “A big city, even the one that has an important position in the world economy, can suffer the same fate. You don’t need to destroy the buildings of this big city. You don’t need to kill any resident and even ...
The village of Dafen in China is known as the copycat painting capital of the world. In the nineties, it used to produce numerous duplicates of masters like Salvador Dali, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, and so on. Dafen accounted for almost 60 percent of new oil paintings in the world at that time. But ...
Katie Whipple is a painter from New York famous for her flower paintings. Married to Brendan Johnston, who is also an artist by profession, Whipple’s studio is located in Southampton on Long Island. The painter Katie Whipple grew up in Indiana. Her mother was a self-taught painter who encouraged Katie Whipple’s talents from a young ...
Between A.D. 618 and A.D. 907, China was ruled by the Tang Dynasty. Considered one of the high points of Chinese civilization, the period is also known as the “Golden Age” of Chinese poetry. In 1705, the emperor of China commissioned a collection of Tang poetry, which was eventually published under the name Quan Tangshi and ...
Watching live theater performances often engages people more than a TV show largely because everything happens live, right in front of their eyes. The audience usually feels so involved in the performance that every comic or tragic incident triggers deep emotions within them. Current research shows the heartbeats of audiences synchronizing with a theater performance. ...
In Naples, Italy, there is a theater that holds the record for being the oldest continuous opera house venue in the world. The “Teatro di San Carlo” was opened in 1737 and later became an inspiration for other theaters built across Europe. The opera house “Teatro di San Carlo” was commissioned by Charles III and ...
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