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Lihua Zhao - Freelance Writer
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Lihua Zhao - Fine Art Registry™ Columnist

Freelance Writer

Lihua Zhao is a freelance writer living in Yangyuan. Born in Wangshi, a town famous for its clothing industry, Lihua graduated from the International Foreign Language University of Suzhou which is the center of the silk embroidery industry. She is writing about art in China for FAR.

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September 1, 2008:
Wei Kan Wei Kan: Contemporary Master of the Yunnan School of Painting
Contemporary Chinese master of the Yunnan School of painting, Wei Kan, who hails from Shandong Province, creates beautiful frescoes and modern pen and ink and wash drawings. Taught by Zhang... Read More


June 3, 2008:
Chinese Ceramics II Chinese Ceramics II: Procelain
China has a very long history of ceramics, which can be divided into pottery and porcelain. The first article in this series focused on pottery. This second article covers porcelain, also known... Read More


March 27, 2008:
Chinese Ceramics Part 1 Chinese Ceramics Part 1: Pottery
Ceramics refers to making vessels, ornaments and other items from clay or china clay which is mixed with various materials, molded, shaped or spun on a wheel and then fired and sometimes painted... Read More


February 12, 2008:
Pop Art Pop Art: At the Time of China's Cultural Revolution
Pop Art was born in Britain in the 1960s, then developed in the United States. It became the contemporary art form at art schools in the USA. It was a movement which praised ordinary things in... Read More


December 5, 2007:
Huanbin Cai Huanbin Cai: Joins Fine Art Registry™ to Expand His Horizons
Huanbin Cai, nicknamed Chase, was born in a working class family in the city of Shantou in Guangdong province in 1980. But from an early age Chase had a great interest in painting. He often used... Read More


October 1, 2007:
Dasheng Hu Dasheng Hu: Carries on a Long Tradition of Chinese Landscape Painting
China has an extensive tradition of landscape painting, with recorded and preserved works going back almost to the beginning of the first millennium A.D. The earliest landscape painting appeared... Read More


July 31, 2007:
Zhihu Zhang Zhihu Zhang: Chinese Calligraphy, Traditional and Modern
Eight thousand years ago, near the Yellow River basin in China, the Ci Shan and Fei Ligang cultures emerged. In these areas, Chinese archeologists have unearthed pottery covered with... Read More


May 22, 2007:
Replicas and Fakes in the Chinese Art Market Replicas and Fakes in the Chinese Art Market
In recent years, as the Chinese painting and fine art market has continued to heat up and become more of an investment potential, the risk of fakes and forgeries has become a major concern... Read More


February 1, 2007:
Art in China Today Art in China Today: A Growing Force to be Reckoned With
However you define "art", the culture or the society in which the art is created is often a key influencing factor. Chinese contemporary art is understandably reflective of the Chinese culture an... Read More


December 29, 2006:
The Ancient Chinese Art of Ivory Carving The Ancient Chinese Art of Ivory Carving: How to Sort Out the New from the Old
To the Chinese, carving is a very important art form and has been for thousands of years. This art divides into three main categories based on the material used: woodcarving, bamboo carving... Read More


September 29, 2006:
Handmade Chinese Silk Embroidery Handmade Chinese Silk Embroidery: True or False?
China has always been famous for its silk. For millennia, the renowned "Silk Road" brought Chinese silk to Central Asia, Western Asia, Europe and Africa. The silk trade created exchanges... Read More


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