Genome-wide data extracted from human remains at Shimao, a walled city on China’s Loess Plateau dating to roughly 2000 BCE, ...
A new study finds ancient Chinese settlements grew centralized over 6,000 years, shrinking from nine clusters to just two ...
Among the highlights is a batch of digitized books donated by the Harvard-Yenching Library to the National Library of China ...
In studying social mobility in today's industrialized nations, researchers typically rely on data from the World Economic Forum or, in the United States, the General Social Survey. But examining the ...
Chinese archaeologists have made an extraordinary discovery in Shaanxi Province, unearthing two ancient game boards from the ...
Did you know ancient Chinese rare books regularly get a gentle "sunbath" so they may be better preserved? As the summer heat ...
A system of ancient ceramic water pipes, the oldest ever unearthed in China, shows that neolithic people were capable of complex engineering feats without the need for a centralized state authority, ...
BEIJING (AP) — Chen Jiao has a curious job: transforming visitors to resemble empresses from ancient China as young people explore a revival of traditional culture. She is one of hundreds of makeup ...