When Chinese painting and its ancestral codes travel the world, Wang Xijing, a master of shan shui landscape painting, becomes an ethnographer, portraying the peoples of Africa, conflicts in Syria, and modern migration routes. Rooted in the highest Chinese pictorial tradition, he captures the types and energies of other peoples using ancestral techniques. Through Wang Xijing’s works, we journey across the globe, guided by the grace of Chinese humanist thought and philosophy.