The making of traditional Chinese furniture is an art form whose craftsmanship dates back as far as 1,000 BC. The furniture is made from hongmu, or “red wood,” a dense, fragrant, and most importantly, ...

Chinese furniture expert Ms. Ma Jiaojiao explained that Chinese wooden furniture has sold well overseas in recent years is due to the industry’s continuous pursuit of sustainable development, as well ...

Rosewood furniture seller Wang Zhiyi is having a bumper year. He has just delivered a set of furniture worth more than 500,000 yuan ($80,600) to a client in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province, ...

Visitors admire rosewood furniture at an art collection exposition in Liaocheng, Shandong Province on November 14. Photo: CFP A set of rosewood furniture valued at 500 million yuan ($80 million) was ...

A yellow rosewood chair at a recent furniture fair in Beijing. More than 2 billion yuan ($3 billion) in hot money flooded into Vietnam from China to buy yellow rosewood goods last year. [China Daily] ...

Runaway Chinese demand for luxury furniture is spurring illegal logging across Southeast Asia, stripping the region of precious Siamese rosewood and driving cross-border corruption and violence, ...

The purchasing power of China’s burgeoning middle class is the stuff of dreams for retailers, but is increasingly causing nightmares for conservationists. Conspicuous consumption among wealthy Chinese ...

We are inclined to think that trees are a renewable natural resource. Yet precious hardwood trees have already been almost completely logged out from many countries across the tropics. Myanmar is the ...