Dressed in the robes of a Chinese emperor in conjunction with a Chinese New Year celebration, Pahang exco member Nizar Najib has called on the people to reject divisive elements jeopardising ...

Seal carving dates back to the Spring and Autumn period in China (770-476BC), when the tradition of signing documents with personalised engraved stone seals dipped in vermilion cinnabar paste began.

academic Tajuddin Mohd Rasdi finds its reaction to the presence of a “Chinese emperor” in Pahang surprising. “I am pleasantly surprised,” he told Malaysiakini. “Does this mean that PAS ...

Photos / supplied The Mongol Chinese emperor Kublai Khan was immortalised by English poet Samuel Coleridge’s opium-fuelled descriptions of the “pleasure dome” at Xanadu, the imperial summer ...

The Foreign Ministry’s China Division in 1991 listed the pros and cons of arranging a visit to China by Emperor Akihito, including the possible impact on diplomatic relations around Asia.

A 100-metre length of it nicknamed "Chop Alley" has been the home of Chinese stone seal ... when a soapstone seal carved for the Qing dynasty Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799) was sold by Sotheby's ...

Xi Jinping has become the longest-serving president of the People's Republic of China since its founding in 1945 after being elected once again for a third five-year term.

For more detail on these diverse ingredients in traditional Chinese apothecaries go here. Items not to scale. Photographed at Emperor’s College of Traditional Oriental Medicine, Santa Monica ...

Both these regions have ivory carving traditions predating Christianity ... production of Christian statuettes in ivory in the imperial workshops of the Mughal Emperor Akbar around 1580–1595. The ...

Ancient hunters killed woolly mammoths for their meat. Today in Russia’s Arctic the search is on for their valuable tusks. 15 min read This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National ...

Initial reports that China had banned ivory imports for a year got a severe dousing later today after it was clarified that this ban only referred to ivory carvings. The ban, effective immediately ...

Hong Jianhua (2nd, R) guides a craftsman to carve bamboo art work at Huizhou Sculpture Museum in Huizhou District of Huangshan City, east China's Anhui Province, Jan. 7, 2025. Hong Jianhua, an ...