Two volumes of 2,300-year-old silk books – the earliest known in China – arrived in Beijing from the United States in the ...

The silk manuscripts, containing more than 900 Chinese characters, are the earliest examples of silk text discovered to date ...

Wuxing Ling consists of lunar month illustrations paired with explanatory texts, recording seasonal taboos and auspicious ...

After assembling a robust chain of evidence regarding the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts, China formally issued a memorandum to the Smithsonian Institution demanding the return of the “Wuxing Ling” and ...

In the predawn hours of Sunday, a commercial flight from Washington D.C. touched down in Beijing carrying an extraordinary ...

The parts of the manuscript returning to China are Wuxing Ling and Gongshou Zhan, known by scholars as Volumes II and III.

Chinese experts have discovered for the first time multiple instances of overpainting on the T-shaped painting on silk from ...

The parts of the three-volume manuscript that have been returned to China are Wuxing Ling and Gongshou Zhan, known by ...

CHANGSHA, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinese experts have discovered for the first time multiple instances of overpainting on the ...

The plane carrying China's earliest known silk texts, the Zidanku silk manuscript volumes II and III, touched down at Beijing ...

Volumes II and III of the over 2,300-year-old Zidanku Silk Manuscripts arrived in Beijing at 3.55am on Sunday (May 18) after ...

China has added three new sites to the United Nations' list of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS), ...