Dr. David Dian Zhang discusses his groundbreaking discovery of a 200,000-year-old set of human handp......
How an enthusiastic teacher in a rural city renowned for its educational prowess produced China’s mo......
Researchers find Chinese building design across centuries fluctuated with temperature and snowfall p......
Locked in competition with neighboring Shaanxi, the central Henan province has sought to spotlight t......
The longest-lived ruler of the Qing dynasty wrote 43,000 poems in his lifetime, most of them bad.
Afghanistan has had a more profound impact on the art and culture of China than many realize.
How the 2,000-year-old Dujiangyan irrigation system solved flooding in Sichuan
UNESCO described the coastal city as a “maritime emporium” during the Song and Yuan dynasty periods.
From maneater to star-crossed lover, Lady White Snake has become one of Chinese literature’s most ve......
Professor Wang Yuanchong on the oft-overlooked stories that defined the early Sino-American relation......
The discovery of a 3,000-year-old civilization at Sanxingdui raised profound questions about China’s......
The coastal city will be the country’s 56th cultural heritage site if the U.N. body approves the app......
Once a haughty undertaking of academics, archaeology has come down to earth.
Caoyang New Village in central Shanghai is a symbol of the prestige China’s “model workers” enjoyed ......
From missionary magazines to misprints, Marxism’s success in China was anything but a given.
In the 1930s, Shanghai took in thousands of Jewish refugees from Europe. Some of them would stand wi......
Shanghai is redeveloping swaths of traditional “shikumen” housing in one of its most historic distri......
As China prepares to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the CPC, the stories of revolutionary women ......
Chinese emigration is often framed as a unidirectional search for freedom and prosperity elsewhere. ......
A fateful encounter at a table tennis contest in 1971 helped end the United States’ trade embargo on......
