The Album section of our website is an effort to show the fun that can be derived from the history, art and crafts of China.  We start with the four items below and will slowly add photos of structures and paintings from the Ming dynasty in future months.

Under Beijing Food and Recipes, we start with an overview of some favorite, traditional Beijing home-style food and offer recipes from longtime Beijing residents.  Future articles will include highlights of Beijing-style Moslem, Manchu cuisines; all will include easy-to-use recipes for readers to try at home.

From simple to intricate, traditional Chinese-style line drawings comprise an art genre that can be at once graceful, practical and fun. Beautiful in and of themselves, they can also serve as patterns for embroidery, design, drawing and coloring.  Over the years we have collated a wide assortment of line drawings.  We start with an example of a colored camellia line drawing, which you can download and re-color.  Also available is another intricate camellia drawing and a line drawing of chrysanthemums.

We share our extensive collection of postage stamps from the People's Republic of China date from 1950 to the present; all are available for downloading.

Another Chinese traditional art form can be found in Scissor and Knife Cuttings.  We are particularly pleased to bring to you two original handmade knife cuttings by Mr Hou Xu, a young Beijing artist.  Not only can you download these cuttings to print out, but also you can buy them, framed or unframed, for your personal collection.  All purchases are tax deductible contributions to the Geiss Foundation.  Click here for details:  Buy Hou Xu Knife Cuttings.

In March 2005 we plan to add the first uploads of Ming structures and paintings.