In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains:“Heaven has gone blind!” Thousands of starving farmers, ...

American Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai had found the opening ... when most Chinese were destitute, the Ching dynasty was forced to pay large monetary ...

But scholars have now found that Zhouyuan was already the capital for the Zhou people before they overthrew the Shang Dynasty (c.16th century to 11th century BC) and established the Western Zhou ...

In recent decades archaeologists in Shaanxi, China, have found artefacts evidencing new civilizations, many are on show at ...

Borges, for example, read widely and had a deep understanding of Chinese culture, including Taoist philosophy, the I Ching, an ancient Chinese divination text from the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046BC ...

For over 800 years from around 1050BC to 221BC, China was organised as a feudal state under the Zhou dynasty.

It is located within Jinci, the earliest existing royal ancestral temple in China, established in the Western Zhou Dynasty (c.11th century-771 BC) to honor the founding marquis of the Jin State ...

The fall of the Western Zhou dynasty, even if it occurred nine long years after the portentous earthquake, was a validation, in the eyes of many, of the royal astrologer's interpretation of the ...

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