Within the grounds of the Guangzhou Zoo in South China’s Guangdong Province, nearly 150 tombs were uncovered during recent excavations. The tombs span thousands of years and were from various ...

The Manchu, or Qing, dynasty (1644-1912), hugely expanded China’s borders northward, making the Great Wall largely unnecessary as a defensive measure.The wall stands as the world’s largest ...

European colonisation was harsh and lasted only a few decades. After the Qing dynasty overthrew the Ming dynasty in China in 1644, adherents of the deposed regime fled to Formosa.

Erlitou in the heart of the Central China Plains is spread across some three square kilometres in Luoyang, Henan province. The site, dating back to 3,800 years ago, is believed to be the capital ...

The finding shows the astonishing variety of early gunpowder weapons used during the Ming dynasty, which ruled China from 1368 to 1644, according to Tonio Andrade, a professor of history at Emory ...

The Three Imperial Tombs of the Qing Dynasty in Liaoning Province include the Yongling Tomb, the Fuling Tomb, and the Zhaoling Tomb, all built in the 17th century. Constructed for the founding ...

For decades, Chinese scholars have been toiling at the party’s behest to draft an official history of the Qing, China’s last imperial dynasty, which the Manchu ethnic group led for nearly 270 ...

127 European maps of China made during the Ming and Qing dynasties feature in a book which shows how the Middle Kingdom was seen in the West, and by itself ...

JOHOR BAHRU: China’s decision to publish a new map that lays its claim over the disputed South China Sea as well as land areas contested by India and Russia too is timed to cast a spotlight on ...