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Guide picks
Includes books, folk customs, shadow play, folk prints, lacquer and more.

China Avant-Garde
Art advisory services and resource to collectors focusing on important Chinese contemporary art.

China Shadow Play Institute
Includes the history, activities and links about this almost extinct chinese folklore art.

Chinese Folk Customs, Games and Performing Arts
Introduction to festivals and some traditional Chinese games.

Chinese Macrame
Chinese Macrame is based on over a dozen basic knots that are named according to their distinctive shapes, usages, or origins.

Folk Prints
A depiction of the legends, religious imagery, and everyday lives of the Chinese people.

Puppetry - the Taiwan Tradition
The Chinese puppetry comes in two major forms:the marionette theater and the shadow theater.

The Art of Decorative Enameling
Cloisonne, or cloisonne enamel, is the decorative art of applying enamel of all colors to the surface of a copper or bronze object which is then fired to become a bright and colorful work of art.

The Chinese Traditional Art of Lacquer
Introduction to Chinese lacquer art.

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