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

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

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...

Daniel Reid's "Chinese Herbal Medicine" explores a millennia-old healing tradition blending spirituality, philosophy and science. Its origins are tied to legends like the discovery of san qi (Yunnan ...

Moreover, the common assumption that cat domestication took place in China during the Han Dynasty between 206 B.C. and A.D.

Discover artworks and national treasures tracing the Chinese culinary evolution from Neolithic times to the Qing dynasty, ...

More than 70 objects are showcased at the China Institute Gallery, including a late Shang Dynasty (c. 16th century-11th ...

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

Even though the Empress Dowager Ling’s rule was problematic and short — resulting in her assassination — she laid the foundation for other, more successful female rulers across medieval East Asia.