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!

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...