Without scissors or blades, a sheet of white paper is torn into a lovely rabbit in less than a minute. The simple, rough outline and the plan profile of the rabbit are quite different from a pattern ...

What inspired you to start paper tearing? I used to go back to Guangzhou every year to celebrate Chinese New Year. In 1983, I went back as usual, and was sitting in my family’s home with nothing to do ...

In the children's book "Grant, the Eco-Friendly Artist," a young child is hyperfocused on tearing paper. The book says that Grant "would draw, paint, and tear paper for hours and hours, over and over!

Kong Minghui, an inheritor of paper-tearing calligraphy art, displays a piece of his artwork in Lujiang county, Anhui province, November 3, 2013. The paper-tearing calligraphy, as an intangible ...

There’s more interest in the folk art of paper tearing than you would expect. The King of Paper-craft, Lee Sing-man (or Uncle Man as he is known), runs workshops dedicated to the art. YP junior ...

When Lee Sing-man lost both his home and family, it seemed there was nothing worth living for. A renewed engagement with the traditional Chinese folk art of paper tearing brought him back from the ...