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Renowned for their sense of commerce and diplomacy along the Silk Road from Antiquity to the High Middle Ages, the Sogdians ...

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A tablet inscribed with 580 characters depicting the life story of Li Chonghui has recently been found in a Tang Dynasty (618-907) tomb in Turpan, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Though she changed the Li house's Tang Dynasty into the Wu's Zhou Dynasty, she had trouble choosing a successor and finally ordered in her will a return of the throne to the Li house's offspring.

When I was invited to talk about the civil service exams and Tang Dynasty poetry to a class of seventh graders, I consulted my go-to text, An Anthology of Chinese Literature, Beginnings to 1911, ...

This story appears in the June 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The world economy in the ninth century had two powerful engines. One was Tang dynasty China, an empire stretching from ...

Case: 17 x 15.5 x 2 in. (43.2 x 39.4 x 5.1 cm.) Book: 17 x 13 in. (43.2 x 33 cm.) ...

Tea was popular in the Tang Dynasty. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties prominent officials and eminent people used tea drinking as an occasion to foster friendships and discuss poetry.

The earliest ice skates in ancient China were primarily crafted from horse shinbones. Over time, wooden ice skates emerged, ...

Born in an amateur artists' family in Liquan in 1969, Gao has held a strong interest in painting since childhood. He ...

Statue of a 'foreign groom,' Tang dynasty (618-907), in the exhibition 'Tang China. A Cosmopolitan Dynasty (7th-10th century)' at the Guimet National Museum of Asian Art, Paris. MUSÉE DE LUOYANG ...