The “Guoyu”, or “Discourses of the States”, an ancient text from the fourth century BC, describes “when the state is about to perish its ruler is greedy, reckless, depraved and perverted.

Discover interesting facts about ancient China's rulers, philosophy, and the Great Wall of China.

The ancient Greeks were incredibly talented mathematicians—but they rarely used numbers in their math. Their particular specialty, geometry, dances around actual quantities, focusing on higher ...

Yuan cited two letters written by two Qin soldiers, excavated in an ancient tomb in modern-day Hubei province.

I am an admirer of Prof. Perry Link’s lifelong scholarship, but it is hard to find credible his argument (“Marxism Is a Mask for Xi’s Power Over China,” Letters, Aug. 9) that Xi Jinping ...

Calligraphy was once China’s highest art form—then the Communist Party tried to erase it. Now, under Xi Jinping, it’s making a comeback. At Sotheby’s in Hong Kong, a rare copy of the ...

When the Nestorian Church entered China, it was clearly dependent on the traditional philosophy and religions of China—Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, especially Buddhism.

Letter from China: Perceiving openness in ancient Silk Road city Xi'an 0 Comment (s) Print E-mail Xinhua, April 17, 2024 Adjust font size: ...

Experts believe that the discovery of a 7,500-year-old civilization, along the coast in southeastern China, may have been the origin of one of the greatest maritime migrations in human history.

In Chinese, the ancient Nestorian Church is called jing jiao (景教), or "the Religion of Bright Light." After the fall of the Tang dynasty, the arrival of Nestorian Christianity in China was forgotten ...