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A Chinese king’s infatuation with a woman was seen as the reason that a golden age collapsed. Evidence suggests climate change and internal strife played bigger roles.

Severe droughts and floods in 9th-century China may have triggered migration, weakened border defenses, and accelerated the fall of the Tang dynasty.

A more important, historically speaking, presidential election than America’s concluded last week … where Xi Jinping was entrusted with the leadership of China. The selection followed a process viewed ...

Key Point: China has a long, proud history going back thousands of years. Chinese civilization is one of the world’s oldest continuous civilizations. Indeed, unlike Western, Islamic, and Indian ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The Qing Dynasty was actually not Chinese in origin. They were Manchus who after establishing a state in Manchuria, were let into China through the Great Wall by a ...

Landscape painting has been one of the most celebrated accomplishments of Chinese culture since the third century, treasured by artists, patrons and scholars alike. Drawn from the Freer Gallery of Art ...

The 19th century poet Gerard Manley Hopkins paid homage to the kingfisher’s brilliant plumage in his poem “As Kingfishers ...