It was China’s desperate need for good warhorses that spawned history’s most famous trade network, animals it paid for in silk and then tea.

From the mid-second century b.c. to the late first century a.d., the armies of China’s Han Dynasty (206 b.c.–a.d. 220) defended their territory against the marauding forces of the Xiongnu Empire, a ...

The Silk Roads were lined with successful trading outposts, which during times when the trade was prosperous grew to become ...

For thousands of years, the institution of marriage has been in a constant state of evolution. The established form of marriage recognized in each country, religious or social group at any given time ...

Visitors take a camel trek into the desert of the Hexi Corridor in Gansu province, a region famed for its wealth of historical sites and a variety of natural landscapes. CHINA DAILY Editor's note: ...

The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is situated in northwest China and in the hinterland of the Eurasian Continent. It borders eight countries: Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, ...

Located in the majestic Altai-Sayan Mountains in the south of Siberia, the city of Abakan has a long and rich history going back thousands of years. But in the 1940s, archaeologists found something ...

Chinese archaeologists have uncovered a newly identified section of the Qin Straight Road, one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects ever undertaken in the ancient world. The 13-kilometre ...

Having lived his whole life in the modern cities of Singapore and Hong Kong, Wee Kek Koon has an inexplicable fascination with the past. He is constantly amazed by how much he can mine from China's ...

The first emperor of the Chinese Han dynasty, Liu Bang, built his reign on the military genius of a man who in his youth suffered hunger and hardship, but who managed to persevere until reaching ...