During his lifetime, Qin Shi Huang became obsessed with achieving immortality and sought the elusive elixir of life.

The Song dynasty ruled China from 960 to 1279, marking a period of economic prosperity, technological advances and cultural ...

As the Qin, China's first dynasty, lasted only from 221 to 206 BC, that sentence may strike you as reckless hyperbole. Mao certainly didn't think so. In May 1958, having silenced most of China's ...

Discover the massive terracotta army, buried for centuries and revealing the grandeur of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang. Uncover the history, mythology, and mystery of the tomb complex and its ...

Photos / supplied The Mongol Chinese emperor Kublai Khan was immortalised ... the imperial summer capital in northern China. But for historians, he was the grandson of nomadic Genghis Khan ...

Negotiations for the first Japanese emperor to visit China in 1992 were kept so secret that the prime minister at the time, Kiichi Miyazawa, complained he was not sufficiently consulted.

The emperor’s visit to China can bring the world’s attention ... Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu will be the first leader of an industrialized nation to visit China since the Tiananmen Square ...

Taiwan’s history of resistance against colonizers – whether European, Japanese, or Chinese – and multi-ethnic nation-building ...

Federal judges in Washington and Maryland say the president's attack on birthright citizenship flouts the 14th Amendment and ...

Joan Chen, best known for "Twin Peaks" and "The Last Emperor," spent years away from Hollywood after breaking through in the ...