Phung Dinh Giap of Bac Ninh Province is one of the few remaining craftspeople to make these once-popular traditional figurines. Clay statues have been a traditional type of toys in Vietnam, and are ...

The 180-year-old Clay Figurine Zhang School was created by Zhang Mingshan in North China's Tianjin. People liked his clay figurines so much that they nicknamed Zhang "Clay Figurine Zhang," hence the ...

How can art and culture from the past survive in a globalized world? Inheriting the treasure of art and culture from the past thousands of years, young Chinese have created a new trend - Guochao, or ...

Zhang Yu, the sixth generation maker of "Clay Figure Zhang", kneads a figurine at his workshop in Clay Figure Zhang Art Gallery in Tianjin, north China, Dec. 28, 2018. "Clay Figure Zhang" is a ...

A small clay figurine from roughly 12,000 years ago is forcing archaeologists to rethink when humans began telling complex, character driven stories about themselves and the animals around them.

NANJING, April 14 (Xinhua) -- A new chain of coffee shops has sprung up in the city of Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province, themed on the ancient Huishan clay figurine culture -- with a few modern ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 7,500-year-old clay female figurine near Sfântu Gheorghe in central Romania, the National Museum of the Eastern Carpathians (MNCR) announced on social media, as ...

A staff member shows the figurines in Clay Figure Zhang Art Gallery in Tianjin, north China, Dec. 28, 2018. "Clay Figure Zhang" is a household name of traditional folk art in China, and such artwork ...