Articles with keyword "China"
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Recluse At Court
From a chapter on art in the Yuan Dynasty, written by James Cahill in the NEH-supported 1997 reference work Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting (Yale University Press).
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Imperial Scrolls of China
By Meredith Hindley
Monumental paintings from the Qing dynasty document the power of its emperors.
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The Making of Jonathan Spence
By Frederic E. Wakeman Jr.
From Winchester College to The Search for Modern China.
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The China Scholar
Jonathan Spence and NEH Chairman Leach discuss key moments in four hundred years of Chinese history.
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Worshipped, Plundered, and Digitized
By Lauren Viera
It’s easy enough to wander through the Asian art wing of a large museum and skim over the fine print.
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Mo Yan 101
By James Williford
Sometime in the late 1960s or early seventies, a neighbor told Guan Moye about a writer he knew whose work was so popular that he could afford to eat jiaozi—“those tasty little pork dumplings