In the sweltering summer of the year 18 CE, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains:“Heaven has gone ...

Throughout the Yangtze River Delta, a region in southern China famed for its widespread ... notoriously thirsty crop is almost as old as the ancient grain’s domestication. Thousands of years ...

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

[horse feet clattering] - We're almost in Peking a capital city of China. This is an ancient and highly cultured ... on our little raft down the Yangtze river, like holding it up and trying ...

Legend has it that in the Ming Dynasty, this area housed barrel-makers employed by Shen Wansan, Jiangnan's richest merchant.

Archaeologists are terrified to open the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor who ... to simulate the hundred rivers, the Yangtze and Yellow River, and the great sea, and set to flow ...

Shanghai lies on the Huangpu River, about 15 miles upstream from where the mighty Yangtze, the lifeblood of China’s economy ... Our hotel had no city map or concierge, so I consulted a 1937 ...