Chinese imperial food dates back to slave society. Ever since there were emperors and palaces, there has been imperial food, which was served mainly to the emperors, their wives and concubines ...

The taozhong, the earliest kind of bell, appeared in primitive Chinese society. It was an instrument for labouring people to play ... China after the Qin Dynasty, ancient bells gradually became ...

This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Grand Canal barges have no fancy names, no mermaids planted on the bow, no corny sayings painted on the stern. Instead ...

In 1996, archaeologists found the tomb of Emperor Wu-the 6th-century ruler who reigned over the Northern Zhou dynasty from ...

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A newly translated book explores how international residents have shaped and recorded life in China’s ancient capital for ...

A leading academic has highlighted China ... history, including a startling fact about a well-known theorem Hundreds of years before a Greek scholar outlined his proof of the Pythagorean theorem ...