MORE than 1,500 years ago, poet Lu Kai, living in the south, sent a sprig of plum blossom to his friend Fan Ye in ...

In gratitude, the Suining Chamber of Commerce crafted two silk banners featuring traditional Sichuan Shu embroidery. One was presented to Davidson, and the other to Rodwell and Wigham. The banner ...

At the heart of the Confucius Temple in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, which is part of the Qinhuai River Scenic Belt, is one of ...

Legend has it that in the Ming Dynasty, this area housed barrel-makers employed by Shen Wansan, Jiangnan's richest merchant.

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains: "Heaven has gone blind!" ...

As shophouses underwent countless changes over the years, they served as a sort of oversized painter’s canvas that recorded ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history. Archaeologists from Egypt and the U.S. unearthed the tomb ...

Yet the answers remained elusive — until his quest connected him remotely with researchers at the Jingdezhen Ancient Ceramic ...

It all began with a wooden-bodied, hand-cranked camera, a Peking Opera star, and a man with a vision named Ren Qingtai.

Editor's note: Chinese paper-cut is an ancient folk art form that involves cutting intricate patterns and images from paper.

The China Engraved Block Printing Technique is a traditional method of printing that involves manually carving characters and ...

Pavilions, corridors, rockeries, a belvedere, a teahouse, a Buddhist hall and more subtle settings provided a retreat amid mountains and forests within the merely 6,000-square-meter space, all with a ...