The Chinese dragon is more than just a lucky symbol!

The Minneapolis Institute of Art is kicking of at an exhibit to celebrate the Lunar New Year on Feb. 10. CATHY WURZER: Well friends, this Saturday marks the first day of the Lunar New Year. According ...

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 ...

This is the year of the dragon, Loong, the fifth of twelve animals in the cycle of the Chinese zodiac. Dragons must be revered and feared, but their fierce energy should be nurtured, not negated.

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 ...

Sophie Couchman has undertaken research work for the See Yup Society on a voluntary basis and formerly curator at the Museum of Chinese Australian History. Leigh McKinnon is the Research Officer at ...

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 : ...

CU Boulder Asian languages faculty Yingjie Li and Yu Zhang reflect on what some consider the luckiest year in the Chinese zodiac An interesting thing happened in 2012: China’s steadily declining ...

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 ...