Tea and Small Dishes at a Guangzhou Table
A Guangzhou tea table connects small dishes, changing tea-house spaces, dumpling craft and everyday gestures of hospitality.
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Shawan: Music, Milk Curd and Floating Color
He-family musicians, Sanren Hall, ginger-milk curd and floating-color processions preserve different kinds of practiced skill in Shawan.
Water Sleeves and a Red Boat: Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Theater
Costume-inspired lines, red-bean imagery and a boat-hull wall give different spaces of Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Theater their character.
Hongxian Nü: A Stage Career Kept in Performance
Hongxian Nü’s stage career, art center, former home and a play performed by a later generation connect biography with living opera.
Stories on the Roofline: Reading Chen Clan Academy's Craft
Ceramic figures, grey plaster and carved materials occupy different scales, from a roof ridge to a doorway.
A House Built by Many Branches of One Clan
Chen lineages from across Guangdong created a shared place for worship, examination study and lodging in the provincial capital.
A Palace Beneath the Modern Street
A stone pool, winding channel, wells and successive palace remains reveal the ground beneath central Guangzhou.
A Jade Burial and the Kingdom of Nanyue
Jade, silk and hemp cloth give a royal burial suit its human shape and reveal several different kinds of skilled assembly.