Pure and Infinite reflects the eminent status Hebei enjoyed in white ware production. It was home to the Xing kiln, which ...

Though she changed the Li house's Tang Dynasty into the Wu's Zhou Dynasty, she had trouble choosing a successor and finally ordered in her will a return of the throne to the Li house's offspring.

The earliest ice skates in ancient China were primarily crafted from horse shinbones. Over time, wooden ice skates emerged, ...

A Chinese study explored how people in the middle and upper classes used cosmetics during the Tang dynasty (618-907). The researchers found that make-up was a fun part of daily life for those who ...

Because Southern Tang had declined by the time Li Jing died, and he had declared himself a vassal of the Later Zhou Dynasty, his mausoleum was much smaller than for Li Bian. The layout of its ...

Born in an amateur artists' family in Liquan in 1969, Gao has held a strong interest in painting since childhood. He ...

One of the most famous Chinese folk tales is the “Legend of the White Snake.” Although early versions of the myth date back ...

This story appears in the June 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The world economy in the ninth century had two powerful engines. One was Tang dynasty China, an empire stretching from ...

In the San Gabriel Valley, comics are finding out how to kill, slay, murder, crush — but not bomb — in Chinese.

However, almost a thousand years before them, the Christian community thrived in medieval China during the rule of the Tang ...

Case: 17 x 15.5 x 2 in. (43.2 x 39.4 x 5.1 cm.) Book: 17 x 13 in. (43.2 x 33 cm.) ...

Among those displays, a Tang Dynasty (618-907) epitaph can be viewed by the public for the first time since its excavation in 1997. The epitaph, engraved on a stone stele, is a national first ...