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 ...

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In the study, the team systematically dug through preserved poems dating back to the year 618 CE and found hundreds of ...

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

Learn more about the Yangtze finless porpoise and how researchers used ancient poems to map out it's habitat decline.

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 ...

Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it ...