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

Although it is one of his lesser-known verses, it inspired the name of the protagonist in Flourished Peony, a popular costume drama that has amassed a staggering 4 billion views since its debut on ...

Famous for a British king abdicating to wed her, Simpson spent a year in China tainted by vicious rumours. Paul French has a different story Much has been written about Wallis Simpson, the ...

The Opium Wars of the mid-19th century were fought between the Western powers and the Qing dynasty, which ruled China from ...

Jingjue in Niya was one of 36 vanished states in the western region of ancient China. Important heritage and artifacts from ...

New research has revealed bone powder was a crucial substance as ancient China's Peiligang culture emerged from a ...

Derived from the poppy plant, the psychotropic narcotic has fascinated people for 5,000 years. For better and for worse.

China's relations are starting to improve with Japan, India and other countries that former U.S. President Joe Biden courted, just as Donald Trump brings his more unilateralist approach back to ...

Befitting its ancient lineage, the citrus genus has taken on symbolic significance in different religions around the world. In China, pomelos are traditionally eaten during the mid-autumn festival ...

The U.S. should rethink Chinese perceptions of geopolitical conflict because China brings a fundamentally different perspective to politics than the West, Xinru Ma, a research scholar at the ...

Explore the rankings here. The manufacturing industry is a cornerstone of China’s economy and a crucial sector underpinning the global economy. In 2023, the manufacturing sector’s added value ...

“We have seven or possibly even eight native species in this country, whereas in China, they have only five.” The first citrus varieties to arrive in the Mediterranean from Asia were the citron and ...