The Church of the East was already present among various Mongol tribes when Kublai Khan (1260–1294) conquered China. Though ...

China’s Meijian is looking to position plum wine as the nation’s next big alcohol export, with a focus on both local ...

A study tracking rainfall patterns over thousands of years has found that more arid periods coincided with ages of dynastic ...

The earliest ice skates in ancient China were primarily crafted from horse shinbones. Over time, wooden ice skates emerged, ...

The well-developed academy system provided Jiangxi with a significant educational advantage, producing many Jinshi scholars ...

In a ship-themed exhibition hall in Tsim Sha Tsui of Hong Kong, cultural relics from the Song Dynasty (960-1279) were shining ...

In China’s southernmost island province of Hainan, local fishing families still keep their cherished heirlooms: worn sea route manuals known as Geng Lu Bu. For centuries, far before the invention of ...

The dragon dance is a traditional performance and ceremony in China. It is usually performed during the Lunar New Year and ...

Food from ancient, and not-so-ancient, times, has seen cuisine from across China appear on tables at home and abroad to this ...

In recent years, with the continuous upgrading of China's products and the acceleration of internationalization, many local specialties in China have gradually broken regional boundaries and entered ...

Roman Emperor Septimus Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and ...