Dressed in a red-and-white warrior costume, Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting balances on one foot on the narrow handle of a ...

The process itself is a ritual connecting art to origin. Artists and researchers carefully collect, clean and grind the ...

Written in 1598, the same year as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Tang Xianzu's drama follows Du Liniang, a young woman who ...

How have Jingdezhen’s kiln fires burned for millennia? The answer lies not only in its unique clay and time-honored ...

Spitting may be frowned upon today but it was once a common practice in rural Ireland, writes SEAN HALLINAN. Firstly, I am ...

History is woven from stories, and vivid individuals are the protagonists of these tales. Alongside the event "Ha ...

Archaeologists working at a Bronze Age cemetery in northwest China have uncovered pottery vessels containing residue that reveals a sophisticated brewing technique dating back nearly 4,000 years. The ...

A property boom that kicked off in the early 2000s became one of the biggest, fastest generators of wealth in history. Art ...

High on the sheer limestone cliffs in southwest China, ancient wooden coffins remain wedged into rock faces hundreds of feet ...

From Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping, generations of Communist Party bosses and military leaders invested in a strategic but ...

Veteran restorer Lan Desheng examines a Terracotta Warrior at Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum in Xi'an, Shaanxi ...