This is an iconic photo of Cixi, the Empress Dowager of Qing China, in the early 1900s Xunling, The Empress Dowager Cixi with foreign ... by National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution
How modern is this Chinese painting? Of course, it’s a trick question; it all depends on what you mean by "Chinese," or by "modern." Wang Zhen, Buddhist Sage by Craig Clunas
Can a photograph be appreciated in the manner of a Chinese painting? "Father of Asian photography" Lang Jingshan asked this question nearly a century ago. Lang Jingshan and early Chinese photography by Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres