When the Chinese Canadian Museum opened the doors of its permanent home in Vancouver on Canada Day, there was a sense of both homecoming and historical acknowledgement. The opening marked exactly 100 ...
A Ming dynasty painting that reappeared at an auction last year has exposed decades of corruption and “serious violations of duty” at one of China’s most prominent state museums. The work in question ...
Series with 370m views echoes Chinese state media calls for return of cultural relics A viral series on the Chinese version of TikTok about a jade teapot that turns into a woman and escapes from the ...
The British Museum said on Wednesday it would receive 1,700 pieces of world-renowned Chinese ceramics worth around 1 billion pounds ($1.27 billion), in the largest donation in its nearly 300-year ...
A veritable frenzy of international partnerships is sweeping through mainland Chinese museums. Although the pace of building new museums has slowed, collaborations with overseas, primarily Western, ...
Weibo, China's social media equivalent of Facebook, has been awash with calls for the return of its artefacts currently in the British Museum. Tens of thousands of Chinese social media users have ...
This 300-object reappraisal of the Qing dynasty has plenty of sumptuous pieces but is hampered by simplistic curatorial concepts Alastair Sooke has been covering art for the Telegraph since 2003. He ...