like China today, mass-produced trade goods and exported them by sea. Working in shifts until the monsoon stopped them, a team of divers retrieved the ancient artifacts. The treasure—much of it ...

We were in Niding, a tiny hamlet cradled by the mountains of northern Yunnan, in the southwest of China, drinking yak ... mule-drawn caravans plying the old trade route were still common, the ...

These countries and regions in turn also sent diplomatic missions to China, which brought a busy trade to Xinjiang. Ancient central China's silk products, iron ware, gold and platinum, bronze ...

India was the center of ancient trade, not China, historian William Dalrymple said, debunking popular historical claims at the India Today Conclave.

Russia and China are planning to revive the age-old practice of barter trade to get around Western sanctions, Reuters reported on Thursday. The deals could involve agriculture and could come as ...

[Photo/Xinhua] Xinjiang was known as Xiyu, or the Western Regions, in ancient China. Following its unification ... with ancient trade routes between the Western Regions and the Central Plains ...

IN his Conway Memorial Lecture, "Science and Society in Ancient China", delivered on May 12, 1947, Dr. Joseph Needham attempts to sketch a pattern of the organisation of Chinese feudal society and ...

Tourists visit an ancient stage in Shaxi Town, Jianchuan County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, March 17, 2025. Shaxi, a remote township in Jianchuan County, was once an important trading hub for ...

slapping additional tariffs of 10-15 per cent on selected American goods and announcing plans to bring a case to the World Trade Organization over the matter. 2. China to be ‘main beneficiary ...