In 221 BCE, King Ying Zheng of Qin conquered the rival warring states and established the Qin empire as Qin Shi Huangdi (The ...

The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is an international collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise ...

Following its unification during the reign of Emperor Qianlong (1735-96) of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911 ... with ancient trade routes between the Western Regions and the Central Plains ...

Spring is in the air when flowers bloom, tea leaves unfurl, travelers flock to gardens, orchards, and rolling hills to ...

Works on display include Qing-dynasty painter Ding Guanpeng’s lively ... foreign merchants along the Silk Road, a network of trade routes ran through China, across the Pamir mountains, through ...

New research suggests that domestic cats first appeared in China around 600 CE, likely arriving via the Silk Road trade route ... in China during the Han Dynasty period (206 BCE–220 ...

The much-anticipated trade route from Samrang in Samdrupjongkhar is set to open soon, following the final approval from the Government of India. The much-anticipated trade route from Samrang in ...

To connect worlds, one had to protect them. The Han emperors understood this, and the Great Wall was built over 11,000 ...