The geopolitical impact of the Arab state on the trajectory of Asian history was enormous: it swept away old states and ...

Ricci map - detail from a China panel. All images via Wikipedia. In 1602, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming dynasty had a big ...

An expert based in the US believes a stone-carving technique used on a recently-discovered Chinese inscription proves its authenticity.

At least a dozen people were killed after the two countries exchanged fire after simmering tensions over a border dispute ...

Skirmishes on the disputed border between the two countries flared again on Sunday, highlighting the challenge of resolving a ...

The megadam is set to become the world’s largest hydropower system and, costing an estimated $167 billion, by far the most ...

The TV series The Litchi Road, adapted from the 2021 novel bearing the same name, tells the story of Li Shande, a Tang ...

But while the Suez Canal is probably the most famous, it’s not the world’s longest. That title belongs to the Grand Canal in China. The Suez Canal stretches for roughly 120 miles (193km), while the ...

Guyuan, sitting at the foothills of the Liupan Mountains south of Ningxia, was an intersection for agrarian and nomadic ...

As an ancillary event to the Global Civilizations Dialogue Ministerial Meeting that was concluded on Friday in Beijing, the activity leveraged Dunhuang's rich cultural heritage to convey the values of ...

At home with the Kong family Exhibition reveals the scholarly and revered descendants of Confucius lived their daily lives with solemnity as well as humor, Yang Feiyue reports.

The vase is one of a pair, commissioned from the imperial workshops by the fourth Manchu emperor, whose ancestors swept down from Manchuria in 1644 to defeat the Chinese Ming dynasty and establish the ...