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Raymond Wong worked on 40 pieces of the traditional garment seen on actresses in the hit drama. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
A show at the Met offers a feminist revision of Chinoiserie, a decorative style that swept through Europe in the age of ...
Forty-five local Miao and Dong youths graced the runway wearing traditional costumes. Even a 70-year-old Miao grandfather, Gu ...
Founder Pranita Nayar reflects on ten years of creating bold new work with Mandala South Asian Performing Arts.
There’s an ick about chinoiserie. A palpable unease gurgles beneath the veneer of politesse and delicate refinement on ...
An American woman has been released by the Taliban rulers in Afghanistan after being detained for the past month, the second freeing of a US citizen in the past eight days.
By Alison Zheng Photo courtesy of Pittsburgh Opera When a family friend dragged me to a production of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” at my local opera house at age 7, I never could have imagined it ...
Rarely has such a small amount of fabric made such a huge splash. After Ursula Andress' white-bikini-clad shell collector Honey Ryder appeared on the beach, conch shell in her hand and dagger strapped ...
a people who lived and worked on junks (a kind of Chinese sailing ship) along the coast of China. As a young woman, she worked in the brothels, gambling houses and boats of Guangdong. Her life ...
Mother-friendly jobs are designed to accommodate women who are of legal working age ... Like Chongqing, many other Chinese cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Jinan in Shandong province, and ...
Madam Du Huzhen last saw her husband Huang Junfu in 1944. He had returned to the Kuomintang army and sent her letters. His last letter to his wife, written on Jan 15, 1952, indicated that he was ...