When I was invited to talk about the civil service exams and Tang Dynasty poetry to a class of seventh graders ... the latter provided the hook across the ages to the 21st-century American middle ...

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.

Among those displays, a Tang Dynasty (618-907) epitaph can be viewed by the public for the first time since its excavation in 1997. The epitaph, engraved on a stone stele, is a national first ...