Archaeologists uncovered 200 ancient tombs in China, offering new insights into early life in the region during the Qin and ...

Emperor Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty was the first emperor of ancient China and ruled from 221 B.C. to 210 B.C. He's most ...

This era, called the Warring States period, ended when Qin Shi Huang unified ancient China into an empire and became its first emperor. Around 400 years later, the Han dynasty broke apart ...

Idealism, a hunger for power and a wish to prosper have driven some of the earliest efforts to build a world order.

The oldest known bamboo slip dated from the Cao Wei state of the Three Kingdoms period (220-280) has been discovered during a ...

Rich documentation on Shudao and its ruins exists for the periods after the Qin (221 to 206 BC) and Han dynasties, Zheng said ...

It had been added during the Qin Dynasty (221 BC -- 206 BC) and Han Dynasty (206 BC -- AD 24). The Yellow Emperor is the legendary first ancestor of the Chinese nation, and many Chinese people are ...

Nearly any person you speak to has heard of Beijing’s most famous site — the Great Wall of China. However, Beijing is an intriguing city for many other reasons. Ancient temples stand side-by-side with ...

As a significant school in the development of traditional Chinese philosophy, Wei-Jin metaphysics emerged from the intellectual contention of the pre-Qin era, evolved through the dominance of ...