Princess Li Jingxun was only nine when she died, yet from her resting place, she gifted the modern world a rare glimpse into 7th-century China—a forg…
Rocket scientists, novelists, Nobel Prize winners: meet the Chinese family whose bloodline reads like a who’s who of the modern world
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…
Explore the multifaceted life of Song Emperor Zhao Kuangyin and the idioms it inspired
Forget about Princess Di—the Qing court was rife with rumors that rival any modern royal scandal, from identity-swapped emperors and contested succes…
With a record number of people taking the Chinese bar exam this year, attention has turned once again to the country’s toughest exam—and to how it ha…
A cursory look back through some key characters in China’s history reveals that much can be achieved, even in one’s twilight years
Ancient seafarers who roamed China’s waters left behind countless legends: as leaders of popular uprisings, developers of maritime trade, and heroes …
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