It first came to the attention of a Chinese emperor through emissary-adventurer Zhang Qian, who lived during the Western Han ...

Horned and bearded, with flowing manes on the back and upwardly curled tufts of hair sprouting from the ankles, these ...

The Yangzhong Chen Lüsheng Art Museum in East China's Jiangsu Province is hosting a new exhibition on the latest research ...

When Emperor Ming saw the Buddha in a dream, he sent a mission to India, triggering a chain of events that led to Buddhism’s rise in China.

ZHENGZHOU, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have uncovered evidence that spirit distillation technology in China dates back to the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC-25 AD), much earlier than the ...

HAN DYNASTY TOPOGRAPHIC MAP. DATE: Before 168 B.C. MATERIAL: Ink on silk. DIMENSIONS: 3 feet by 3 feet. FOUND: Hunan, China. In 168 B.C., a lacquer box containing three maps drawn on silk was ...

"Emperor Wu Liu Che," a new original play by the Shanghai Peking Opera Company, is part of the 23rd China Shanghai ...

A man accidentally found a masonry piece imprinted with four fingerprints in a vegetable patch near the site of Weiyang Palace in Chang'an city of the Han Dynasty (206BC-AD25), Northwest China's ...

Dubs noted that the Han dynasty (206 BC-220) employed a unique “fish-scale formation” in their army and wooden defences – military tactics strikingly similar to those used by the Romans.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a 14th-century Chinese novel that tells a hybrid fiction/non-fiction story of the ending of the Han dynasty. This story has been adapted multiple times into ...