Beijing’s expansionist agenda also threatens global supply chains, which depend on Taiwanese semiconductor production. The ...

This story appears in the June 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The world economy in the ninth century had two powerful engines. One was Tang dynasty China, an empire stretching from ...

The Sui dynasty sustained enormous damage due to the failure of the campaign and fell to the Tang dynasty in 618. Tang China also attacked Goguryeo several times butfailed at each attempt. In the ...

The Church of the East was already present among various Mongol tribes when Kublai Khan (1260–1294) conquered China. Though ...

Study tracking climate patterns across thousands of years found that periods of lower rainfall coincided with some major political upheavals Researchers have used tree rings to track rainfall patterns ...

Liu Tingxun was a loyal servant of the Dynasty, and his tomb figures, both human and animal, sum up many aspects of Tang China at its zenith. They show the close link between the military and the ...

A Chinese study explored how people in the middle and upper classes used cosmetics during the Tang dynasty (618-907). The researchers found that make-up was a fun part of daily life for those who ...

These burial figures date from the Tang dynasty in China. If you died in China and you were an important figure, such as an emperor, you would want all of your retinue to come into your tomb as ...

A tablet inscribed with 580 characters depicting the life story of Li Chonghui has recently been found in a Tang Dynasty (618-907) tomb in Turpan, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Like almost every country, especially those spanning vast territories, China went through a unification process that culminated during the reign of the Qin dynasty, in the era known as the Warring ...

With the unification of the three Kingdoms on the Korean Peninsula in 668, Silla enjoyed a marked expansion of both its territory and population. Unified Silla entered a period of dazzling economic ...

during the Tang Dynasty, which is similar to the modern-day role of a chancellor, or prime minister. The ancient high official's stele was engraved with only 26 Chinese characters revealing his ...