To fully appreciate the richness of classical Chinese music, it helps to understand its history, which stretches back more than 8,000 years. Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra member Lu Yi with …
Unfortunately, this is how Chinese cultural artefacts are presented in the United States. For example, an exhibition in San Francisco, “Phoenix Kingdoms: The Last Splendour of China’s Bronze Age”, is …
Its origins in Chinese mythology are darker: it commemorates the suicide in 278BC of Qu Yuan (屈原), a well-loved poet and statesman of the Chu kingdom, during the Zhou dynasty’s …