As China has shown at various periods in its history, the greater a civilisation, the more open and magnanimous it is to foreigners.

It is with little wonder that this post of mud brick and poplar wood buildings was a crucial stop on the ancient Silk Road, as goods passed back and forth from China and into Central Asia, across ...

In ancient China, emperors considered themselves the sons of the heavens. A disaster was, therefore, seen as a sign the emperor had lost favour with the heavens.

Bells of Ancient China and Beyond Thousands of years ago, Chinese musicians worked with foundry technicians to cast matched sets of bronze bells of different sizes to produce a range of tones. They ...

This property is a 5,000 km section of the extensive Silk Roads network, stretching from Chang’an/Luoyang, the central capital of China in the Han and Tang dynasties, to the Zhetysu region of Central ...

Criterion (iv): The immense advances in science and technology achieved in ancient China are graphically illustrated by the Dujiangyan Irrigation System. Criterion (vi): The temples of Mount Qingcheng ...