Some of the most important Chinese Inventions include the compass, gunpowder, paper, printing and moveable type, and much ...

The 1,700 pieces of world-renowned Chinese ceramics constitute the largest donation in the British Museum’s nearly 300-year ...

Sir Percival David’s collection, amassed in the early 1900s, includes prized vases and wine cups. “You simply couldn’t build ...

The British Museum said on Wednesday it would receive 1,700 pieces of world-renowned Chinese ceramics worth around 1 billion ...

It was like a scene from the final hours of the Roman Empire: Everywhere you looked, some prominent politician was degrading ...

In 1900 a scholar jumped in a Beijing well out of shame. A palace consort died in a Forbidden City well too. Was she ...

WWII doc 'The Sinking of The Lisbon Maru' and the dialogue-free dance epic 'A Tapestry of A Legendary Land' may appear to have nothing in common, but both examine unknown chapters in Chinese history.

In Hangzhou's Longjing village, renowned for its world-famous green tea, Kan and her guests enjoyed a blend of tranquility ...

An invasion of Taiwan by China today would face similar challenges that caused the US to drop the idea during WWII. The ...

Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich painstakingly collected the coinage of the House of Romanov, Russia’s second imperial dynasty, which ruled from 1613 to 1917. The history of this powerful family can be ...

In the ancient Chinese calendar, the year corresponding to AD1 is called yuan shi yuan nian, or the “first year of a primordial beginning”. The official reign name, which symbolises a new ...