The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting ...

High on the sheer rock faces of southern China, wooden coffins cling to the cliffs, turning entire valleys into vertical ...

China’s traditional foreign relations can be understood through the philosophy of Tianxia Hexie (Global Harmony).

The modern house cat reached China in the 8th century. Before that, another cat — the leopard cat — hunted the rodents in ancient Chinese settlements.

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several famous ...

History becomes legend. Legend becomes myth. At best, historians hope that at least a kernel of truth lingers lost among centuries’ worth of embellishment, propaganda, and hype. But the gap between ...

This research has proven to be an important step in understanding the genes and cultural history of the Bo people and their unique death traditions.

Teenager with a passion for history collects items stretching across China’s dynasties; says packed bedroom is the ‘container of my spirit’.

Zhao Zeming, the concert's music director and a young composer, states that the guqin and the Grand Canal mirror two ...

A 14-year-old boy from central China has turned his bedroom into a small museum dedicated to ancient Chinese history and ...