An elaborate installation featuring a giant dragon and a poetic tale about a half-fish, half-human creature of Cantonese origin will take over the Nordic Pavilion at the upcoming Venice Biennale. It ...

In celebration of the traditional Chinese festival Dragon Head-raising Day, which falls on the second day of the second lunar month, Dongming county – located in Heze city in East China's Shandong ...

Australian police are seeking two people for allegedly vandalizing a century-old Chinese parade dragon and other valuable artefacts at a museum in a small town known for its historic links to China.

As the only imaginary creature among its 12 animals, the loong, or Chinese dragon, adds a much-needed dash of the fantastical to the Chinese zodiac. Much of the loong’s mystery lies in its unknown ...

As a young man in his early 20s, Emmanuel Dimitri Gran fled the Russian Revolution and made his way to Shanghai in 1917. There, in his new life, he began to collect Chinese art and antiquities: Tiny ...

The Chinese dragon has been around in mythology and folklore for about as long as there's been a Chinese civilization—which ...

Trading places: an introduction to zoomorphism and anthropomorphism in Chinese art / Jerome Silbergeld -- The taotie motif on early Chinese ritual bronzes / Sarah Allan -- Labeling the creatures : ...