Breakthrough by woman pioneer led to jail, execution for son who agreed with her decision to dissect her dead husband.

A massive sinkhole was discovered in southern China with ancient trees over 130 feet in length growing at the bottom, according to reports. The sinkhole, one of 30 found in China's Guangxi Zhuang ...

Imagination and folk legend in imperial China came up with objects that could display people’s internal organs and a flying ...

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A joint archaeological project between Greece's culture ministry and a Chinese team of researchers is breaking new ground ...

Official forms of discipline in imperial China could see lawbreakers' hands cut off; eyebrows shaved or faces tattooed ...

“Who controls the past controls the future,” George Orwell wrote. Rewriting history, as for any authoritarian regime, is the bread and butter of the Chinese Communist Party — and absolutely essential ...

Scientists in China have discovered one of the oldest known matrilineal societies—where family lines and inheritance are traced through a community’s women, not its men. Archaeologists unearthed the ...