For centuries, the Yangtze porpoise was a common sight on the river it is named after. Now, the freshwater mammal is ...

A rare Qing dynasty painting, titled "The Blue Goats," heads to auction at Sotheby's Hong Kong with a high estimate of $19 ...

Une passion chinoise, the exhibition organized at the Musée du Louvre, offers us a fascinating dive into the little-known ...

On the occasion of the conclave, the Chinese Catholic website has retraced the historical origins of the term jiaohuang, used to refer to the Pope. It was first introduced by the great missionary ...

For this costume in Attack of the Clones, Biggar drew inspiration from the historical dress of another empire: Russia. As ...

We've curated a list of the 20 best places to visit and things to do in Beijing to explore the city’s heart and soul.

Despite being deeply flawed, China’s initial experiments with representative politics starting in 1907 left a lasting legacy.

Empires rise like wildfires—how do we measure their scars? One way to measure the march of human history would be the timeline of “The Empires.” The Akkadian Empire (circa 2334–2154 BCE), is widely ...

Taiwan’s National Palace Museum, home to one of the world’s biggest collections of imperial Chinese treasures, does not plan ...

In a creative fusion of science and literature, researchers trace the past range and decline of a rare Chinese porpoise ...

It was in these buildings that the Qing Dynasty emperors honored Confucius, listened to lectures with their ministers, and kept the Four Collections of Books. They were the cultural center of the ...

That is, the roots of the “united front” attempts to absorb Taiwan’s indigenous people into its orbit extend beyond the CCP’s fabricated claims over Taiwan; they strike at the heart of the CCP’s ...