On elegant jade pendants and charms, ladies stand at doorways and balconies, play the flute or kick up their heels in short skirts. Zhai Yiwei updates an ancient art with new ideas. Chinese people ...

Yin Xiaojin's jade carving pendant in the shape of a Chinese cabbage, adorned with a cricket. Chinese cabbage has a long history of cultivation and symbolizes prosperity and abundance. [Photo provided ...

In my last column on Costa Rica’s extraordinary and prolific jade carving tradition, always involving high status and religious symbolism, we saw that significant lapidary work in jade or similar ...