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23 December 2009 - Chinese Contemporary Art is Symbolic of a Changing Market
Ancient pictographs depict China as the Land of the Middle Kingdom, suspended half way between heaven and earth and blessed by splendid isolation from the rest of the world. In this century, this sprawling nation of 1.3 billion sits squarely in the real world, striving to find a place and a voice in a vast [...]

13 October 2009 - Oriental Rugs Have Always been ‘Green’
With the explosion of the green movement affecting everything from automobiles to furniture, rug importers and manufacturers are taking a fresh look at their production methods only to discover that their industry has essentially been green all along. Others are developing ways to enhance the green credentials of their handmade rugs in terms of dyeing, [...]

18 July 2009 - Tang Dynasty Sculpture and Ancient Chinese Lifestyle
Tang Dynasty Camel and Rider is a thousand-year-old treasure within reach of many collectors This extraordinary early Tang Dynasty (618-907 c.e.) camel and rider (20” tall x 14” wide) is representative of a golden period in Chinese cultural history. After hundreds of years of regional conflict and division, central China was unified under as series [...]

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