"China has entered an 'Age of Sarcasm’. Anywhere outside of state-sponsored parties, entertainment shows, or the comedies and ...

In the first instalment of a two-part commentary prepared for next week's Boao Forum, John Keane, Professor of Politics at ...

The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

The museum devotes an exhibition to an often overlooked era of Chinese bronzes, emphasizing both the artistic and political ...

Throughout history, as any anthropologist will tell ... of course, is that the Chinese Empire is immense, and that it straddles a hugely diverse geographic region. And in the case of the Han ...

PRESENTER:'The Chinese Empire ended in 1911 ... that it held the key not only to history, but to the future. PRESENTER:The 12 people sitting here were the representatives of just 57 members.

Even though the Empress Dowager Ling’s rule was problematic and short — resulting in her assassination — she laid the foundation for other, more successful female rulers across medieval East Asia.

The phrase “Chinese Bronze” is, for most, synonymous with the austere vessels used in ancient state rituals or ancestor worship from about 1500 B.C. through A.D. 200. “Recasting the Past ...