The Chinese mindset is deeply rooted in Confucian values, emphasizing family, respect, discipline, and collective harmony ...

AI software has made it possible to consistently analyze thousands of historical texts, allowing scientists to carefully map ...

In the gentle embrace of the autumn sun, the ancient village of Hongcun in Yixian county, East China's Anhui Province awakens ...

Scientists have uncovered clues to a 4,000-year-old mystery — the hidden logic behind where ancient Chinese built their tombs ...

For centuries, the Yangtze porpoise was a common sight on the river it is named after. Now, the freshwater mammal is critically endangered, rarely sighted, and only found in a tiny proportion of the ...

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 ...

A roughly 1-million-year-old Chinese hominid skull has long vexed efforts to nail down its evolutionary identity. Fossil comparisons using a new digital reconstruction of this specimen, dubbed the ...

What Jesus’ death means for how I make sense of my culture’s traditional religious practices. If you ever visit the Temple of Heaven in Beijing—ancient China’s largest center for high-level ...

While two of the tombs were robbed, one was left untouched, and it contained a box full of glazed pottery, among other goods. Chinese Academy of Social Science’s Institute of Archaeology ...

Shou wu, or fo-ti, is a traditional Chinese herb that has been revered for centuries for its rejuvenating properties ...