Historian Claire Taylor reveals how slavery thrived across the medieval world, how religion and politics shaped who could be ...

Excavations led by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) have revealed a vast network of underground tunnels beneath ...

It is this deep-rooted fusion of intellectual heritage and political order that has enabled China not only to endure, but to ...

Waves, blossoms and clouds are just a few of the patterns in traditional Chinese design. The Hong Kong Palace Museum is using ...

From empty forts to borrowed swords, the generals of the Three Kingdoms mastered tricks that could outsmart entire armies.

"This fear factor, this war driver is a very strong one and it's been with this species ever since the beginning and it ...

Early medieval geographies highlighted spatial units and structures that the Qin-Han empire had intentionally sought to obscure-including those of regional, natural, and foreign spaces. Instead, these ...

Extending the author's previous studies of Chinese onomastics, this paper examines the true meaning of a large group of medieval Chinese personal names containing the character chou, “ugly.” Contrary ...