Two officials in charge of cultural affairs in China lost their jobs after “restoring” 270-year-old Buddhist frescoes by painting over them with cartoon-like murals, the BBC reports. A Chinese ...

In the struggle for the hearts and minds of China’s children, Han Fengfang is a warrior with a fountain pen. Han’s post is at a drafting table at the Shanghai Animation Studio. In slow,… ...

Belle Yang's "Forget Sorrow" (W.W. Norton) is unusual fare. It's a graphic novel that intertwines the author's travails with those of her grandfather in chaotic post-imperial China.

Chinese Animation: A History and Filmography, 1922-2012 by Rolf Giesen (McFarland, 216 pages, pub. date: Jan 2015) Buy: $52.25 on Amazon China is becoming one of the powerhouses in contemporary ...

Political cartoons are having a hard time in China, a far cry from the “Golden Age” of the 1980s. Behind the decline lie weakening print media and a distaste for satire and confrontation ...

As a result, his enormous compilation of cartoons, paintings and woodcuts each offer little insights into more than half a century of Chinese history. Liao Bingxiong, "So-Called Gentlemen," 1949 ...

Around 2,200 years ago, ancient China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, began connecting many small walls to build the now-famous Great Wall of China. It eventually became over 13,000 miles (20,000 ...

The cartoon “Princess Fragrant” is based on the true story of a Uighur Muslim woman who married a Chinese emperor in the 18th century. She is highly regarded as a figure of unity.

However, in a new initiative, Chinese government authorities will use a cartoon to promote harmony between ethnic Uyghurs, the native Muslim ethnic group of Xinjiang, and Han Chinese. The cartoon ...

The international comic conference was jointly initiated by cartoon industry organizations in China, Japan, the Republic of Korea and other countries and regions in 1996. Follow China.org.cn on ...

A team in China used ancient DNA to reconstruct the face of an emperor who reigned 1,500 years ago. Emperor Wu was the ruler of the Northern Zhou dynasty from 560 to 578 CE.