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Panda paradise treats visitors to bear necessities

Stickers, sketches and sugar painting images hail the city's famous residentJournalists reporting on the Chengdu FISU World University Games, which opened on Friday, ar

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Folk art exhibition in Beijing offers festive air

The exhibition shows the vibrant, bold palette of folk art, the simple forms and shapes to deliver primitive beauty and the profound cultural meanings being implied. [Photo provided to China Dail

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Tibetan woodblock art preserved in remote village

A woodblock artist pursues his craft. [Photo by Palden Nyima/China Daily] Yesang village is regarded as the birthplace of Tibetan woodblock art, a tradition that has been passed down for more t

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British Museum displays 103 rarely-seen Hokusai drawings online

"The Great Wave" by Katsushika Hokusai. /CFP The British Museum has displayed 103 rarely-seen drawings of the 19th-century Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai on its website after adding them i

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Folk artist in his 80s revives age-old woodblock printing

Wang Xueqin is painting. (Xinhua/Song Rui) In a workshop around 20 km from downtown Tianjin, 85-year-old Wang Xueqin takes out a woodblock and brushes ink on the board before he places rice pap

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A beauty with the chisel

Yuchi Jingde and Qin Qiong are two generals of the Tang Dynasty whose bravery later caused them to be incorporated into Chinese folk religion as door gods. [Photo/China Daily] Woodblock printin

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Shaanxi cultural week kicks off in Frankfurt to celebrate Spring Festival

A week-long event series brought by artists from northwest China's Shaanxi Province kicked off in Frankfurt on Wednesday ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival. Under the title "The

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China's ancient printing center turns a new page

Ma Li brushes a layer of ink on a woodblock engraved with 324 Chinese characters, spreads a sheet of paper on it, and rubs over it with a dry brush.

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Blockbusting demand for traditionally-printed Tibetan sutras

Lhasa resident Chodron has been on the waiting list for a woodblock-print sutra from her local monastery for a year, and she will need to wait another two years before she receives the beautiful piece of scripture.