An émigré from post-war China, in Hong Kong Lui Shou-kwan married Chinese ink art with Western abstract art to forge the New Ink Movement.

Narrator: The Qing dynasty was the last imperial dynasty in China. It began in 1644 when the Manchu people from the North overthrew the ruling Ming dynasty and established their capital in Beijing.

Over a thousand years ago, people in the Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127) in China invented the world's first paper currency—Jiaozi. The advent of Jiaozi demonstrated to the world that objects ...