Lian Da has traveled throughout Shanxi province to create over 2,500 black-and-white illustrations of ancient Chinese architecture using only a pen. When the artist first visited Liaoning province ...

Lian Da creates a black-and-white illustration of ancient Chinese architecture in Shanxi province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] ...

IN the year A.D. 659, an illustrated volume of materia medica was published in China. It seems to have served until about 1061, when an extensive revision took place. Prof. Manzo Nakao has studied ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several ...

The earliest signs of civilisation in China have been dated to thousands of years ago, with many ancient cultural and political traditions still in place today. But emerging evidence has helped ...

It's the first time written slips linked to the ancient calendar have been found in a tomb. Archaeologists in China have unearthed a mysterious set of rectangular wooden pieces linked to an ...