Chinese Erotic art takes its place on Asia’s red hot auction block
Despite being seen as a conservative country, China enjoys a profound culture of eroticism with a long history of more than 2,000 years. The...
The Mogao Caves unveil a new route to the heart of Chinese culture with a new welcome centre
In Northwest China, at the edge of the Gobi desert, a sinuous line of vertiginous cliffs is home to the Mogao grottoes. Although inspired by the...
The 11th edition of Quintessentially Asia Magazine is now out
Quintessentially Asia is a luxury lifestyle magazine with the brain of Jane Austen, the style of Audrey Hepburn, the passion of Ai Wei Wei and the...
Tiny ceramic gems capture the imagination of collectors
When Jesuit missionaries presented snuff to the Qing Imperial Court in the 17th century, it would have been impossible to imagine...
Matrix of delights
Using skills from the 21st century scholars are putting digital techniques to work in an effort to preserve the endangered artefacts of China’s...