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From gendered sacrifice to ancient politics: DNA lifts shroud on early Chinese civilisation

Thousands of years ago, a handful of burgeoning civilisations were forming the earliest cultures of what would evolve into China. Among these peoples were the Shimao, who construct...

How a Common Hat Became China’s Byword for Holding Office

The black gauze cap began as everyday headwear worn by commoners and clerks alike. It took roughly a thousand years, and one emperor's dress code, to turn it into a symbol of polit...

The West studies China’s power — but not its civilization

At their Beijing summit on May 14, 2026, Chinese President Xi Jinping asked US President Donald Trump whether China and the United States could avoid the “Thucydides Trap,” in whic...

China Focus: Global scholars explore new finds shedding light on origins of Chinese civilization

SHENYANG, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Recent excavations at a prehistoric site dating back roughly 5,000 to 5,800 years in northeast China's Liaoning Province have shed fresh light on the o...

Fan Zhongyan and the Family Legacy That Endured for Centuries

Fan Zhongyan (范仲淹, 989–1052) was one of the most influential statesmen, scholars, military commanders, and reformers of China’s Northern Song dynasty (960–1127). He is remembere...

Virtual Tour of the Exhibition “Imperial China: The Qing Dynasty”

The exhibition “Imperial China: The Qing Dynasty (1644–1911)”, currently running in the Armorial Hall of the Winter Palace, is now accessible on the Hermitage Museum website in the...

Ming dynasty work shows how Chinese understood the world in the 1600s

Long before the digital age, a Ming dynasty scholar made it his mission to map human knowledge from a Chinese perspective. The result was an encyclopaedia spanning 127 volumes know...

History refusing to serve CCP’s propaganda

Why China is nostalgic for another time

How America’s 250-year China dream became its greatest strategic challenge

One morning in February 1784, a converted privateer called the Empress of China sailed out of New York harbour. It was bound for a country almost no one aboard had ever seen – Chin...

For a Thousand Years, the Chinese Pinned Catalpa Leaves to Welcome Autumn

The custom of wearing catalpa leaves on the first day of autumn began in Tang dynasty Chang'an and lasted through the Qing dynasty, carried by a pun on the tree's name.

Exhibition on ancient Chinese civilization opens in Kyrgyzstan

BISHKEK, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- An exhibition titled "Harmony Creates Beauty: An Art Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Civilization" opened on Tuesday at the National History Museum of th...

KYRGYZSTAN-BISHKEK-EXHIBITION-ANCIENT CHINESE CIVILIZATION-OPENING

(260819) -- BISHKEK, Aug. 19, 2026 (Xinhua) -- A visitor takes photos of an exhibit at the exhibition "Harmony Creates Beauty: An Art Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Civilization" at...

Global scholars explore new finds shedding light on origins of Chinese civilization

SHENYANG, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Recent excavations at a prehistoric site dating back roughly 5,000 to 5,800 years in northeast China's Liaoning Province have shed fresh light on the o...

Chinese man discovers family dining table is ancestor’s Qing dynasty academic record

A man in eastern China was stunned to discover that his family’s battered dining table was in fact a Qing dynasty (1644–1912) honour board commemorating an ancestor’s success in th...