A Neolithic (7000BC-1700BC) site has been uncovered in Zhenba county, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province in the fourth ...

and the cliffs are dotted with mysterious ancient caves, so that people looking at them feel as if they are facing natural scenery. All these show that Song Dynasty stone sculpture reached an ...

Since Li Bing, then a governor of Sichuan, built the Dujiangyan Irrigation Project around 256 BC, the Chengdu Plain has had no major floods or drought. With fertile land and grain harvest, it is known ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s engaging “Recasting the Past” exhibition looks at the antiquarian spirit in China since the 12th century.

With the introduction of Buddhism into China after the Qin Dynasty, ancient bells gradually became ... the pre–Qin period and the Sui, Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties.

The Rainbow Bridge built in the NOVA program "China Bridge" is just one of many important inventions that appeared during China's impressive Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1280). This vibrant period in ...

Nicolas Chow, chairman of Sotheby's Asia and worldwide head of Asian art, writes in his preface for Liu's collection of ...

Roots of Chinese seapower The first Chinese oceangoing trade ships were built far back in the Song dynasty (c. 960-1270). But it was the subsequent Mongol emperors (the Yuan dynasty of c.

Latte art has got nothing on the ancient Chinese art of drawing ... to Japan by a zen master who had visited China during its prosperous Song dynasty (AD960-1279) to study Buddhism, but ended ...