The nearly 1,000-year-old ink painting by Su Shi fetched US$ ... is one of the most important cultural figures in Chinese history. He was an esteemed scholar, poet, writer, painter, calligrapher ...

As restraints loosened in the early 1970s, Wu rededicated himself to his work, focusing intently on the ancient Chinese medium of ink. "It was very much the opposite of what younger artists were doing ...

President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central ...