These reflected the artistic creativity of Song Dynasty laboring people and the unified system of stone sculpture of the Northern Song period. The Northern Song sculptures of the early period were ...

"But through this art, we are looking at how Song dynasty people enjoyed their tea - and that is worthy of preserving, too." Leung Wai-mun, an associate professor in The Hong Kong Polytechnic ...

Ancient Chinese genre painting as a unique art form has been endowed with a relatively broad developing space since the Song Dynasty.

In the ensuing 160 years and more, Kaifeng remained the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty. It was one of the largest and most prosperous metropolises in the world. Speaking of important figures in ...

The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies is an international society committed to the encouragement of the study of Chinese—as well as Jürchen, Khitan, Tangut, and Mongol—history, ...

a Tungusic people who previously accepted the supremacy of the Liao. Aguda, a capable Jurchen military leader, challenged Liao control, and in 1115 proclaimed himself emperor of the Jin dynasty. The ...

The temple no longer exists. According to historical accounts of Dingzhou, during the Northern Song Dynasty a Buddhist monk, Hui Neng, of Kaiyuan Temple went on a pilgrimage to India for Buddhist ...