The chosen painting is from the Sung Dynasty (960-1279) and is by one of the period's foremost painters, Ma Yüan (1190 –1225). The Sung period is believed to have been one of the greatest eras in terms of Chinese painting. The Royal Art Academy was set up enabling the Emperors of the time to p...

The period of the Yuan Dynasty in China saw an explosion in landscape painting. The reign of Kublai Khan (1260-1294) caused a large amount of the scholarly class to leave the imperial court, meaning "amateur" artists began to show the skills of artists of the court. At this point, four artists bec...

Everything in China seems larger than life; its culture and its civilization go back five thousand years. Its vast area of more than 3,690,000 square miles is the third-largest in the world. With a population of more than 1 billion, it is the earth's most populated country. The Himalayas along Chin...

The history of ancient Chinese civilization has always fascinated people, perhaps, in recent times more than ever. More than one billion Chinese people live in the world today. There are many characteristics that can unite and give a common identity to such an enormous amount of people. Some of t...