Ancient China’s main rivers ran west to east ... move grain—as the country’s unifying feature, it was a potent political symbol and a strategic target for invaders. In the early 1840s ...

Eight days after its release, the film became China’s highest-grossing movie ever with its take on mythical figures.

Daniel A. Bell, a Canadian political theorist specialising in Confucianism and China’s political meritocracy, is chair of political theory at the University of Hong Kong’s law faculty.

Every year in early March, China’s rubber-stamp legislature and its advisory body gather to hear speeches and hold ...

offering a fascinating glimpse into the early development of Chinese culture, politics, and art. Xi’an is most famous for being the starting point of the Silk Road, the ancient trade route that ...

This ancient marvel rivaled Rome’s intricate network of roads This ancient marvel rivaled Rome’s intricate network of roads China’s beloved drunken poet died centuries ago—or did he?

IN his Conway Memorial Lecture, "Science and Society in Ancient China", delivered on May 12, 1947, Dr. Joseph Needham attempts to sketch a pattern of the organisation of Chinese feudal society and ...

[Photo/Xinhua] Xinjiang was known as Xiyu, or the Western Regions, in ancient China. Following its unification ... to the emperors reflected their political allegiance to the central government ...