Exploring the ancient Chinese obsession with carving messages and poems on rocks and walls
An audience with the Son of Heaven could be a minefield of ritual, ceremony, and etiquette for China’s court officials
Legal, social, and cultural barriers to ending China’s forced labor tradition
How rulers and would-be rulers used and manipulated prophetic texts
The date and means of celebrating a new year changed and evolved over centuries in ancient China
For centuries, Chinese funerals demanded living sacrifices to accompany the dead in the afterlife
Freewheeling prices and millennia of cultural mystique fuel China’s insatiable appetite for the green stone
An excerpt from “Rivers Deep, Mountain High,” TWOC’s recent book on Shandong province,
The Qin’s terracotta warriors changed the lives of the peasants who discovered them—not for the better
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