Despite this, ancient China, like ancient India, acknowledged that sex was more than mere pleasure – it is a pathway to a ...

Editor’s note: “Fair Ladies — Digital Representations of Ancient Chinese Women,” a Zhejiang Museum exhibition of more than 1,000 paintings from 32 museums across China, was held first online in 2021 ...

Like most Chinese, Chi Wenhui first learned the classic tale of The Emperor and the Assassin in her school textbook. It tells of the warrior Jing Ke’s failed assassination attempt on King Zheng — who ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several famous ...