‘See Canton and die’ I would almost say,” wrote the British explorer and travel writer Isabella Bird, in the 1870s. The high-speed railway from Hong Kong makes Guangzhou, China’s third ...

A co-organizer of the exhibition The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry and Politics in 17th-Century China with Susan Tai, Sturman was beginning a talk to accompany and explain the selection of works in ...