As Clifford Lo and Fiona Sun report for the South China Morning Post, an unwitting buyer apparently cut the nine-foot-long calligraphy scroll in half under the mistaken impression that it was a ...

The copy of Wang Xizhi's work measures 24.5cm x 13.8cm (9.8in x 5.5in) A rare Chinese calligraphy scroll has fetched 308m yuan (£29m; $46m) - the second-highest amount paid for an artwork at ...

so a recent protracted battle over a 14th century Chinese calligraphy scroll was all the more remarkable for coming four years into a market downturn. Rao Jie’s 700-year-old, six-metre long ...