Visitors admire the dragon-scale bookbinding works of Zhang Xiaodong at an exhibition in Shanghai in August 2023 (COURTESY PHOTO) At his studio in Beijing E-town on the southeastern outskirts of China ...

At his studio in Beijing, artist Zhang Xiaodong layers hundreds of sheets of thin paper on top of one another until they form a complete and impeccable image. When the chapters of his elaborate books ...

The only existing Tang Dynasty (618-907) book applying the Dragon Scale Binding technique, preserved in the Palace Museum (COURTESY PHOTO) With a cup of pu'er tea and a burning sandalwood incense ...

At his studio in Beijing, artist Zhang Xiaodong layers hundreds of sheets of thin paper on top of one another until they form a complete and impeccable image. When the chapters of his elaborate books ...

At his studio in Beijing, artist Zhang Xiaodong layers hundreds of sheets of thin paper on top of one another until they form a complete and impeccable image. When the chapters of his elaborate books ...

They are book pages but unlike anything modern-day readers are used to. When the pages are unfolded, they resemble the bellows of an accordion or waves approaching a beach. This is the result of ...

A thangka painting using the qianye technique created by Zhang Xiaodong. [Photo By Qin Bin/Beijing Review] With a cup of pu'er tea and a burning sandalwood incense stick on the desk, Zhang Xiaodong ...

The Bookies are a passionate group of women dedicated to the art of hand bookbinding. Meeting monthly in each other's homes, Cheryl Mahowald, Mary Hagerty Sabo, Marilyn L. Schweitzer, Barbara Erickson ...