Remnant of the Great Wall dated to the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) in Dunhuang SUN ZHIJUN/FOR CHINA DAILY/TONG YUNSHAN/CHINA DAILY Nowhere in the Hexi Corridor does a traveler feel closer to those ...

Since Li Bing, then a governor of Sichuan, built the Dujiangyan Irrigation Project around 256 BC, the Chengdu Plain has had ...

The head of a uniquely shaped Han Dynasty pottery figurine, dating back 2,000 years, in southwest China, bears an uncanny ...

In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei.

The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

Leitai Han Tomb in Wuwei, a 15th-century shrine dedicated to the God of Thunder, sits right atop a tomb dated to around the late 2nd and early 3rd centuries. COURTESY OF GANSU PROVINCIAL MUSEUM AND ...