A leading academic has highlighted China’s rich mathematical history, including a startling fact about a well-known theorem.

Oracle bones were often made from tortoise shells, as in this photograph, and from the shoulder blades of oxen. According to archaeologists, a fortune teller would carve a question into the bone with ...

China's concept of human rights stems from the evolution of Chinese civilization and centuries of cultural exchange. Drawing ...

In the ancient Chinese calendar ... concept of “Anno Domini”, or AD itself was born. This is why some Chinese history enthusiasts call Wang a “time traveller”. The counting system for ...

[Photo provided by Mingmei Li/China Daily] Spanning millennia, the history and mystery of Sanxingdui's ancient civilization is reaching international audiences through modern digital platforms.

Xu says that for a century, Chinese scholars have become used to a classification system that categorizes the study of ancient textual cultures into disciplines such as history, philosophy and ...