A scholar's passion for glass painting Xinhua | Updated: 2026-07-09 06:33

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202607/09/WS6a4ed03aa310986e2b4643f2.html TIANJIN — Laura Maria Cinquini, an Italian PhD candidate in world history at the University of Turin, has returned to Tianjin, a city in North China, to continue her research on Chinese glass painting. Her latest visit brought her back to Zhang Chunlin, a representative inheritor of a Tianjin intangible cultural heritage item involving glass-painting techniques of dyeing, etching, and grinding.