According to Chinese tradition, Chinese civilization is 5,000 years old, though the ancient China of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou ...

A newly discovered rectangular chariot and horse pit in Baoji, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province has provided key evidence ...

Because of his tyranny and excessive tax collections the Qin Dynasty ended soon after his death. Portrait of Emperor Qinshihuang As the first huge ancient mausoleum in China, with a river in front ...

A rare decorated statue was uncovered among the “terracotta army” in the tomb of the ancient Chinese emperor Qin Shi […] ...

multi-ethnic feudal state in Chinese history — the Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.). He called himself Qin Shi Huang or "First Emperor of Qin." He standardized the written script, weights and measures ...

According to writings of court historian Siam Qian during the following Han dynasty, Qin ordered the mausoleum's construction shortly after taking the throne. More than 700,000 laborers worked on ...

Zhao Gao, a high-ranking official of the Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.), gifted the emperor with a deer, insisting it was a horse. Laughing, the amused emperor asked his entourage what they thought.

Liu Bang came from humble stock. A patrolman-turned-guerilla, he led his Pei County militia in the revolt that defeated the unpopular Qin Dynasty. In its wake, defacto rebel leader General Xiang ...

Flowing through the Fuling district of Chongqing Municipality, the Yangtze River looks as graceful as a teal green ...