A short history of Chinese "religions." (The word "religion" did not enter the Chinese lexicon until the 19th century.) This essay examines Chinese belief systems, which refers to how people think and ...

Chinese history went through the Xia, Shang and Western Zhou dynasties and the Spring and Autumn Period. Three thousand years ago in the Shang Dynasty the hieroglyphs of acupuncture and ...

The Reviewer — Martin Petersen is a CIA veteran, Asia expert, and a Cipher Brief Expert . He is the author of City of Lost Souls, A Jack Ford Shanghai Mystery [BH1] , which was recently named Earnshaw ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Banister, Judith. "A Brief History of China's Population." In The Population of Modern China, edited by Dudley L. Poston Jr. and David ...

Many chimes of bells appeared in the days before the Qin Dynasty (221 BC-206 BC) unified China. Most of them were shaped uniquely like combined pairs of tiles. They produced quick and short notes.

Imagine the intangible cultural heritage of China's shadow puppets reenacting Michael Jackson's iconic dance moves, which ...

Could a long-forgotten fantasy story rewrite the history of Chinese science fiction? “The Travels of Chang Ching Chong: An Autobiography,” published anonymously in English in 1898, might seem an ...

The story is simple and sweet: an aging and lonely Chinese mother, suffering from empty nest syndrome, receives an unexpected second chance at motherhood when her homemade dumpling comes to life.