Liu Weixue, 26, a post-1990s man with a major in design, is the grandson of Liu Youquan, inheritor of the traditional method of making Yuhang paper umbrellas.[Photo/CFP] In January, an outdoor paper ...

It's Christo time again. Every few years the world's best-known site-specific artist rolls out a few thousand bolts of bright, plasticky fabric and concocts a giant eye-catcher in some outdoor place ...

Bi Liufu, a 59-year-old villager in Fenshuiling Township, Luzhou City of southwest China's Sichuan Province, is a sixth-generation inheritor of traditional Chinese oil paper umbrellas . Bi, who began ...

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Architecture studio MAD has created a canopy that reinterprets traditional Chinese oil-paper umbrellas at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. Appropriately named Chinese Paper Umbrella, the ...