A DOZEN 18th century chinese paintings have been discovered in Dorset home worth up to £500,000. The discovery came after an ...

In 2025, modern Chinese romance dramas are making a strong impression with their blend of heartfelt emotions, intricate relationships, and fresh storylines.

Jiang Qing and 14-year-old Sun first meet in 1930s Shanghai at an audition for Ibsen’s The Doll’s House, and swiftly become ...

MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production that panders – if inadvertently – to Western prejudice against China ...

[Photo provided by Jiang Dong/China Daily] In 1772, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), then just turning 60, had reason to be joyful after finally securing his dream place for ...

The writer Amy Ng has made a sterling effort in digging up the true story behind her new play at the Kiln, Shanghai Dolls, ...

Looking at the rise and fall of two powerful Chinese women through the vague lens of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House probably sounded good on paper. It’s a shame then that Shanghai Dolls fails to deliver ...

Why? Historical evidence is scant, most is destroyed or locked away. Shanghai Dolls questions rather than answers. You can’t really pack so much history into imagined meetings between two people, and ...

Walking into the newest exhibition from the University of Alberta Museum, you’d think you walked into the time period of the Qing dynasty in China. Red walls covered in intricately detailed tapestries ...

Read our review of Shanghai Dolls at Kiln Theatre. Directed by Katie Posner, Amy Ng's drama about China's Sun Weishi and Jiang Qing is clumsy and flimsy ...

The source material here is undeniably compelling – a cautionary tale of resentment and repression. But this production ...