{"id":35646,"date":"2026-05-16T21:05:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T18:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=35646"},"modified":"2026-05-16T21:05:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T18:05:45","slug":"order-character-and-time-preserved-in-chinas-classical-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=35646","title":{"rendered":"Order, character and time preserved in China\u2019s classical furniture"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-16-at-09.30.27-e1778948060454.jpeg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>The first time one truly stands before a Ming-style horseshoe-back armchair, a quiet misperception arises. It does not feel like an antique. It feels like a piece of modern design completed several centuries too early. There is no heavy imperial pomp, no crowded carving, none of the mother-of-pearl inlay so often associated with later Qing [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2026\/05\/order-character-and-time-preserved-in-chinas-classical-furniture\/\">Order, character and time preserved in China\u2019s classical furniture<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/\">Asia Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time one truly stands before a Ming-style horseshoe-back armchair, a quiet misperception arises. It does not feel like an antique. It feels like a piece of modern design&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-without-rubric"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}