Rising 57 meters high, the Laozi statue and the 36-ton jade seal together stand as remarkable new symbols of Chinese cultural ...

“I have attached one photograph of four jade pieces that I purchased between 1972 and 1974 in Hong Kong” wrote Anthony Timbers of Farmington to the column looking for both appraisal and advice. “I was ...

On elegant jade pendants and charms, ladies stand at doorways and balconies, play the flute or kick up their heels in short skirts. Zhai Yiwei updates an ancient art with new ideas. Chinese people ...

Yangzhou is one of the most famous areas in China for jade production, and has a long history in the jade trade. Over thousands of years, generations of jade craftsmen have been devoting themselves to ...

The 5,000-year-old jade dragon is believed to be linked to the Hongshan culture AN ANCIENT jade dragon has recently been discovered buried in a stone tomb deep in the mountains of Mongolia. The ...

Historical artifacts excavated from Tapeh Yahya in Kerman and other archaeological sites suggest that the history of the craft goes back to four thousand and five hundred years BC. The Discovery of ...

Nearly lost amid the violence and cultural nihilism of the Khmer Rouge, stone carvers continue to find markets for their ancient tradecraft Veteran stone-carver Touey puts the finishing touches on a ...

These exquisite artworks are carved from natural stones. The colored stones exist only in Shoushan village, in southeastern China's Fuzhou, therefore they are called "Shoushan stone". One thousand ...

AN ANCIENT jade dragon has recently been discovered buried in a stone tomb deep in the mountains of Mongolia. The 5,000-year-old statue was discovered by archaeologists excavating an ancient burial ...