In the early hours of May 18, an airplane touched down in Beijing carrying precious cargo: fragile fragments of ...

The Chu were noted masters of lacquerware, made by painting ... year-old tomb is revealing fresh insights into a period of upheaval and cultural flourishing that forged modern China.

Two volumes of 2,300-year-old silk books – the earliest known in China – arrived in Beijing from the United States in the ...

In an 1861 painting commissioned by the British monarch ... Among the British, the dogs were coveted as souvenirs of “Old China” — a romanticized, mystical vision of a then-fading imperial ...

In a first-of-its-kind discovery, archaeologists in China have unearthed the 2,200-year-old burial of a woman whose ... B.C. in religious ceremonies, art, body paint and writing, this is the ...