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Chinese literature is among the most imaginative and interesting in the world. The precision of the language results in perfectly realized images whether in poetry or prose and, as with all great literature, the themes are timeless. The Chinese...

Confucianism is a philosophy developed in 6th-century BCE China, which is considered by some a secular-humanist belief system, by some a religion, and by others a social code. The broad range of subjects touched on by Confucianism lends itself...

Ancient China covered a vast and ever-changing geopolitical landscape, and the art it produced over three millennia is, unsurprisingly, just as varied. Still, despite continuous indigenous technical developments, changes in materials and...

Ancient China had seen little Western contact before the 16th century CE, the language, culture and science all being allowed to develop independently of foreign influence. By the time European Jesuit missionaries arrived in the 16th century...

An 1870 oil on canvas, Bazille's Studio, by Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870), the French impressionist painter. The impressionists used their own studios to show works to their friends. Here in Bazille's studio, Edouard Manet (1832-1883), holding...

Contact between Korea and China goes back to mythology and prehistory. Trade developed from the Bronze and Iron Ages with raw materials and manufactured goods going in both directions for centuries thereafter. In addition to traders, migrants...

A 17th-century portrait of Sir Thomas Fairfax (1612-71) the first commander of the Parliamentarian New Model Army during the English Civil Wars (1642-51). By the Robert Walker Studio. (Sotherby's Auction House)

Ancient Chinese writing evolved from the practice of divination during the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BCE). Some theories suggest that images and markings on pottery shards found at Ban Po Village are evidence of an early writing system but...

An 1874 oil on canvas painting, Monet Painting in His Studio Boat, by Edouard Manet (1832-83), the French modernist painter. Claude Monet (1840-1926) took the impressionist ideal of painting outdoors one step further and built himself a floating...

The cover of Strange Brethren: Refugees, Religious Bonds, and Reformation in Frankfurt, 1554-1608 by Professor Maximilian Miguel Scholz. (Association of University Presses)