Editor’s note: “Every time a Beijing resident turns on the tap, 70% of the water that flows through comes from the Han River,” writes investigative journalist and writer Yuan Ling. As the source of ...

Along the river there is a village named Baoping, the birthplace of Wang Zhaojun, who was a celebrated imperical concubine of the Han Dynasty but was married into a northern kingdom.

A huge cemetery from China's Western Han Dynasty (206 BC to 24 AD) has been discovered at the Three Gorges area's Tujing town of southwest China's Chongqing municipality. According to Fang Gang of ...