Thanks to a Creative Space Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission, we installed new carpeting in the Center's main gallery and shop. While we were at it, we also gave the gallery shop a face-lift. We hope you'll like its new design and feng shui. In The Shop Peasant paintings. The Center has acquired a handful of original paintings by Chinese peasant artists from the 1980s depicting village life in brilliant, vivid colors.
Butterflies aflutter in gallery shop .
Our shop now carries butterflies from Asia and other parts of the world handsomely mounted in acrylic display cases. 100 Chinese Gods by Wu Luxing, illustrated by Lu Yanguang. Winner of the Asian Pacific Publishers Association's Silver Prize, this volume covers a broad range of historical and legendary Chinese characters. This fully illustrated volume discusses the stone's origin, appreciation, and worth, as well as maintenance of jadeite jewelry and identification of imitations. Chinese zodiac greeting cards .