Experience the vast imperial palace complex, with its intricate rooftops, grand courtyards, and centuries-old architecture, revealing the grandeur and history of China’s ancient dynasties from a ...

5 fast facts about Ancient China. Around 3,000 years ago, people in ancient China used "oracle bones" — tortoise shells or bones inscribed with Chinese writing — to predict the future.

Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty prince and princess–fully intact. Their tombs, filled with grave goods ...

The history of Wang Mang, a Han dynasty minister and imperial cousin who later founded his own short-lived dynasty, ... China Science. Why the year AD1 was also a new era for ancient China.

After a heated bidding battle that went on for a record-breaking 95 minutes, a 700-year-old handscroll fetched over $32 million at Sotheby’s Hong Kong last Thursday, April 10, considerably ...

The party’s founders had little good to say about China’s pre-communist history. But Xi Jinping, the current leader, has backed the revival of old instruments.

On the other hand, three of America’s leading adversaries — China, Russia and Iran — not only are ancient empires themselves, but also continue to be imperial states that suppress subject ...

George Yeo, the former foreign minister of Singapore, spoke last month about why China's unique character suggests they do not have any desire to be a colonial power at the Cambridge Union.

Ancient Chinese classics are like encyclopedias that cover various subjects such as literature, art, traditional Chinese medicine and folk customs. As TV shows such as China in the Classics have ...

By the 12th century, fireworks were being lit for entertainment purposes in China’s imperial court, Withington said. Rudimentary fireworks then made their way to Europe around the 14th century ...

China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, claimed in April that Xi, in a recent diplomatic initiative, had offered “answers to questions of our times” that contributed “China’s wisdom to the ...

On the other hand, three of America’s leading adversaries — China, Russia and Iran — not only are ancient empires themselves, but also continue to be imperial states that suppress subject ...