Review – In the closing sentence of his new book, The Red Emperor, Michael Sheridan ... as “a son of the yellow earth” from the time he spent away in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. As ...

In the mythic geography book Shan Hai Jing (Classic of Mountains and Seas), many gods hold snakes or hang snakes around their ears, or have a snake’s body, as a mark of their extraordinary abilities, ...

The creation myth for the Chinese people is one in which the ... It is said that when “Yellow Emperor” Huang Di defeated another tribe, he incorporated that tribe’s animal totem into his ...

Chinese mythology has been trending lately ... After a magic flare-up alerts the Celestial Emperor to her existence, Xingyin finds herself fleeing her lunar life, embarking on a quest to save ...

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The Foreign Ministry’s China Division in 1991 listed the pros and cons of arranging a visit to China by Emperor Akihito, including the possible impact on diplomatic relations around Asia.

Allusion to the top leader of China in general ... CDT first detected that "reigning emperor" was blocked from Weibo search results on August 21, 2014. It remains blocked as of October 20 ...

Mao certainly didn't think so. In May 1958, having silenced most of China's intellectuals, the Great Teacher, referring to Qin's founding emperor, Shihuangdi, boasted: ‘He buried 460 scholars alive; ...

There wasn't the modern-day diplomacy yet. But Filipinos and Chinese had already established friendly links through Sultan Padaka Pahara of Sulu and Yongle Emperor, ruler of imperial China under the ...

The Yellow River, known as China's "mother river" and the cradle of Chinese civilization, supplies water to 12 percent of China's population and irrigates 17 percent of the country's arable land.