Trump’s tariffs are bad enough, but Xi is fundamentally distorting world trade to dig China out of the hole its economic ...

As an annual sheep fighting competition kicked off on Feb 15 in Juancheng county of Shandong province, the sounds of drums ...

The exhibition provides new perspectives on the history of Chinese maritime trade, and allows visitors to learn about the ...

Millennia later, the once prosperous Jijiaocheng, which is located in modern-day Lixian county, Changde, Hunan province, came ...

A recent study suggests that money could have come into existence due to long-distance external exchange networks that could not rely on familiar, trust-based relationships.

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

Experts reveal that merchants brought domestic cats to China via the Silk Road, supported by new DNA research on ancient cat ...

Along the Pearl River in southern China, a fast-growing industry is churning out cheap clothes and toys that are flooding the world duty-free.

Renowned for their sense of commerce and diplomacy along the Silk Road from Antiquity to the High Middle Ages, the Sogdians ...

Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

Traveling along the Tea Horse Road unlocks a land of teahouses, centuries-old monasteries, and epic valley views.

Two of the most commonly accepted theories for the origin of money are the commodity theory and the chartalist theory. Both ...