In the study, the team systematically dug through preserved poems dating back to the year 618 CE and found hundreds of ...

Years ago, the buzzword term "Yongzheng so busy" was invented to echo a pop culture moment in which Emperor Yongzheng of the ...

For centuries, the Yangtze porpoise was a common sight on the river it is named after. Now, the freshwater mammal is ...

A rare Qing dynasty painting, titled "The Blue Goats," heads to auction at Sotheby's Hong Kong with a high estimate of $19 ...

The imperial food served within the walls of the Forbidden City by the Qing Dynasty had an important effect on Chinese dietetic culture. Using the traditional diet of the Manchu ethnic group as ...

Learn more about the Yangtze finless porpoise and how researchers used ancient poems to map out it's habitat decline.

Qianlong was also known for his collection of art. Once exclusively the preserve of royals, objects from his treasure trove ...

In China, these styles emerged as repurposed aesthetic objects under the textile-savvy emperor thanks to adept Qing artisanship at workshops in Jiangning (present-day Nanjing), Suzhou, and Hangzhou.

Nearly any person you speak to has heard of Beijing’s most famous site — the Great Wall of China. However, Beijing is an ...

The porpoise is critically endangered. Ancient Chinese poems reveal the animal’s range has dropped about 65 percent over the past 1,400 years.