From millennia-old rituals to everyday idioms, the Classic of Poetry’s importance to Chinese literary culture cannot be overstated—and a recent archa…
China’s great philosophers, historians, and poets had one thing in common. They got up from their desk and hit the dusty trail.
Step back 1,000 years into the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, when political chaos produced a litany of historical curiosities
Before the small, biometric-chipped booklet we now clutch when crossing borders, travel credentials in ancient China took many forms—from tokens and …
Prized in ancient China for their strength on and off the battlefield, horses have long been synonymous with talent and misused potential—a theme now…
Forget about Princess Di—the Qing court was rife with rumors that rival any modern royal scandal, from identity-swapped emperors and contested succes…
Ancient seafarers who roamed China’s waters left behind countless legends: as leaders of popular uprisings, developers of maritime trade, and heroes …
Through greed, betrayal, or simple mischance, these ancient sons and daughters brought ruin upon their own fathers, officials, princes, and emperors …
From pedestrian wheelbarrows imbued with mystical powers to mechanical beings that poured wine for Tang dynasty courtiers, ancient China birthed mech…
Long before express delivery became an everyday essential, ancient China had built an intricate courier system, though its bureaucracy also bred corr…
From carving on wood to “flying cards” in red envelopes, how people expressed their New Year’s greeting, or “bainian” in ancient China
How the snake evolved from a revered symbol of worship to a figure of fear and evil in ancient Chinese culture
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