Ancient China’s main rivers ran west to east, and Yang wanted to break this grip of geography. He needed a way to move rice from the ... mostly farmers, into building the first section of ...

From a 60,000-year-old Paleolithic settlement to a third-century Buddhist temple along the ancient Silk Road, China on Thursday unveiled ...

Terraced rice paddies, masterpieces of ancient engineering, have existed in China, the Philippines ... How, then, do farmers construct them? A casual glance might lead you to believe that farmers ...

Throughout the Yangtze River Delta, a region in southern China famed for its widespread rice production, farmers grow belts ...

Throughout the Yangtze River Delta, a region in southern China famed for its widespread rice production, farmers grow belts ... crop is almost as old as the ancient grain’s domestication.