When Malaysia assumes the Asean Chair in 2025, it does so with a unique historical and civilisational compass — one that points not only to the Pacific and ...

Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has deaccessioned fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts (fourth–third ...

WASHINGTON -- The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art on Friday officially returned the Zidanku silk manuscript volumes II and III: Wuxing Ling and Gongshou Zhan from the Warring States period ...

The oldest star chart in the world was made in China more than 2,300 years ago, a hotly debated preprint study finds.

Scientists studied more than 700 ancient Chinese poems that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to determine its population ...

How far back does Chinese civilization go? In this historical documentary, Kings and Generals explore the Shang and Zhou dynasties to trace the origins of one of the world’s oldest continuous cultures ...