In Chinese culture, though, dragons are never considered enemies, according to the New World Encyclopedia. Instead, they are worshipped as divine and righteous. The Chinese dragon also possesses ...

In southern China, the ancient capital city of Nanjing beckons travelers who long to immerse themselves in Chinese history and culture.Nanjing served as the capital city of 10 dynasties and ...

The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented ...

It is hard for us to grasp the timescale of Chinese history and culture. Their history and language can be traced back nearly 5,000 years. The Chinese collective psyche is dominated by three ...

The Chinese dragon is one of the world’s most globally recognized monsters. Playing a major role throughout Chinese history, they were both creators and destroyers and controlled the elements ...

Key Chinese practices this essay will cover are ancestral rites and divination, the teachings of the philosophers Confucius and Laozi, and Buddhism. Appreciating the complexity of this rich and ...

The most famous of those rulers was Qin Shi Huang who adopted Legalism as his state philosophy and became the first Emperor of China.The phrase ‘Burn the Books and Bury the Scholars’ is attributed to ...

Those who are familiar with China’s post-1949 history also won’t miss the irony that the Communist government is marketing Confucius as the icon of Chinese culture.

Sixty years ago last month, China’s Cabinet-like State Council ratified a list of 180 “Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level.” Typically abbreviated in Chinese as guobao, ...

Historian Han Qi on why the exchange of scientific knowledge is so important - from astronomy and salt wells to high-speed trains Han Qi is a professor of Chinese history and culture at Hong Kong ...

Guo Jiakun, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, said on April 1 during a regular press conference: "We reject groundless vilification of Xizang's human rights, and religious and cultural cause ...