For some artists, materials are a merely a means for telling a story. For others, like Korean artist Chun Kwang Young, the story is in the materials themselves. A new exhibition of Chun’s work, on ...

The Yellow River runs through nine cities in East China's Shandong province and flows into the sea, bringing vitality and prosperity to the land. Along its banks, numerous intangible cultural heritage ...

The paper mulberry evolved its uniquely fibrous inner bark around 31 million years ago, long before the woody tree was first used for bookmaking during China's Tang dynasty. This adaptation, which ...

Muyasser Aihematitoheti checks a piece of mulberry-bark paper in Moyu County of Hotan, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Jan. 13, 2025. [Xinhua/Ding Lei] URUMQI, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) — At ...

Mulberry paper originated in the Han Dynasty, more than 300 years earlier than Cai Lun's improved papermaking technology. The fame of the mulberry paper was spread as far as the silk road. It has ...

The migration and interaction routes of prehistoric humans throughout the islands of Oceania can be retraced using genetic differences between paper mulberry plants, a tree native to Asia cultivated ...

I started working in 1996 at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art in Washington DC. I came from Japan, thinking it would be interesting to stay in the United States for a couple of years.