In ancient times, fame was cultivated in streets, restaurants, poetry circles, where beauty and talent transformed poets, performers into icons.

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

Microscopic analysis of residues on surgical scissors and tweezers from a 1348–1411 CE tomb in Jiangyin, China, finds the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient ...

Contemporary painters bring new subjects to the ancient blue-green style of Chinese painting, with works on display at Shandong Art Museum in Jinan.[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] More than 100 ...

An ancient Chinese exercise called baduanjin could help lower blood pressure as effectively as some medications, according to ...

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

Visitors examine a bronze chariot and horse modeled in the Qin Dynasty style during the World of the Terracotta Warriors ...

The assumption has been comfortable and long-standing: creativity is a product of abundance. When ancient humans had enough ...

From shaving off eyebrows for shedding tears to forcing exam candidates with bad handwriting to drink ink, imperial laws were ...