best-of-earth:

(by: Sprengben [why not get a friend]) 

This is a new Hetalia Roleplaying Directory up and running! Any Hetalian roleplayer can apply. Promotions are also acceptable.

makeablogtherestheearth:

Please check out the F.A.Q. Have a nice day. (=ヮ=)೨

Tainted Rice Found in Southern China

A government test showed nearly half of the rice sold in the southern Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou is contaminated with cadmium, triggering anger from consumers that the country’s staple food hasn’t escaped the widespread pollution that has affected the country’s air, water and soil.

soulhospital:

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara in “Water Moon” Form (Shuiyue Guanyin) - Liao Dynasty, China, 11th century.

Chinese Art - Wood (willow) with traces of pigment; multiple-woodblock construction, 46.5 x 37.5 inches.

Permanent Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

(Experienced this in person, April 2013)

justbetweenus2:

“Sword Dance”

kawaii-aussie:

APH-Short-Haired-China by ~alexzoe

comedycsi:

Stunning hand-carved open-work porcelain vase, C21st. (30cm tall, 15cm diameter).

Offered for sale on eBay at a ludicrously low price so I suspect they are selling plastic casts of the original. However, to make a high quality cast of an open-work vessel would take great skill too. Very, very impressive.

MUNDAY

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h4ilstorm:

安徽 黃山 西海 排雲亭 (by たつ)

or1entalist:

March a distance of a thousand li to temper a red heart

Authorship: unknown, China, 1971, Dimensions: unknown, Illustration.