New academic research has revealed that when Portuguese merchants arrived in southern China in the 16th and 17th centuries, they bought children as slaves, exploiting an already established ...

In recent times, there have been a series of exciting archaeological discoveries and museum openings in China, such as the ...

A large number of brick kilns for the construction of Great Wall during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 ... 28 km from Qinhuangdao city in north China's Hebei Province. Experts believe that the ...

Over 240 relics from 15 museums display the prosperity of Tang Dynasty (618-907) emperor Li Shimin’s era in the National Library of China (JIANG DONG / CHINA DAILY) As the result of a royal coup ...

In the New York Times, Holland Cotter reviews an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,“The Art of Dissent in 17th-Century China: Masterpieces of Ming Loyalist Art from the Chih Lo Lou ...

This photo taken on May 18, 2025 shows two exhibits of "The Exhibition Series on the Origins of Chinese Civilization: This is the Shang" at the Grand Canal Museum of Beijing in Beijing ...

100 years ago Sun Yat-Sen’s Xinhai Revolution began with the Wuchang Uprising, representing the beginning of the end for the Qing dynasty and thousands of years of imperial rule in China.

Wang Shenzi ruled during the Ten Kingdoms period in China and founded the Min state (909-945), one of the smaller kingdoms that emerged following the collapse of the Tang Dynasty and before the ...

A Tang dynasty tomb unearthed in China dates from the 700s, and the murals on its walls give an unprecedented view of daily life at the time. When you purchase through links on our site ...

The roof of a 650-year-old Fengyang Drum Tower in the city of Chuzhou in East China's Anhui province came ... Tower was built in 1375 during the Ming Dynasty, the county's official statement ...