The late Qing (Manchu) dynasty to the fall of Imperial China. Mongolian Interlude By the mid-thirteenth century,...
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Ancient Chinese golf / Creative Commons The traditional culture not only influences the life of modern people,...
Downtown Tokyo in the 1920s / Creative Commons During the 1920s, Soviet cultural authorities sought to develop...
Nanjing Jinling Arsenal 1865, built by Li Hongzhang / Wikimedia Commons In the 19th century, after a long...
Several of the newly identified stone tools – unearthed from a museum collection. Hu Yue A fresh look...
Chinese stamps commemorating Deng Xiaoping, a leader widely regarded to have modernized the country and made it...
This elaborate set of ritual bronzes, consisting of an altar table and thirteen wine vessels, illustrates the...
Ladies of a Mandarin’s family at cards, by Thomas Allom (1843) / Wikimedia Commons The emergence of...
This article provides a clue on China’s criminal policy on lenient punishments in history, including the Confucianization...
Neolithic Banpo Village, Xi’an, China, flourished 5,000-3,000 BCE. / Photo by Ian Armstrong, Flickr, Creative Commons Chinese...
Handscroll, ink and color on silk, 24.4 x 343.8 cm / British Library Exploring some of the...
The Japanese Tea Ceremony / Photo by mrhayata, Creative Commons Tea was first drunk by Chinese monks...
Scene from the Song Dynasty Illustrations of the Classic of Filial Piety, depicting a son kneeling before...
The Mongol Empire expanded through brutal raids and invasions, but also established routes of trade and technology...
Luoyang longmen grottoes / Photo by Tgasrio, Wikimedia Commons Examining the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties....
The Great Wall of China / Photo by Jakub Halun, Wikimedia Commons The concepts and technology of defensive...
King Zhu of the Shang Dynasty Lights the Signal Beacons, a Perspective Picture / Museum of Fine...
Major Stone Age farming cultures had grown up in China since the 7th millennium BCE. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew...
The Great Wall of China, built 221 BCE-1664 CE. / Photo by Emily Mark, Creative Commons Mark of...
East Roman Empire, 6th century CE, showing the territories of the Avars, Goths, Franks, Lombards, Saxons, Thuringians, Slavs. / Image by William R. Shepherd,...
Detail of the central embroidery work of a woman’s summer robe, c1875–1900. / Wikimedia Commons In China, as...
Tang and Shakespeare’s dramas are being blended together in a series of adaptions. Performance Infinity, Author provided Shakespeare was not the only famous...
Armorial screen Qing dynasty, 1720–1730, Artists from Guangzhou (Canton), Guangdong province, China / Peabody Essex Museum via Wikimedia...
By Dr. Anne KinneyProfessor of East Asian Languages, Literature and CulturesUniversity of Virginia The unprecedented interest in...
Curioso/Shutterstock The story of the silk road, ancient or modern, is as much the story of the sea...
No go zone. pixelflake/Flickr, CC BY-SA Explore the hidden origins of one of China’s most significant historic sites. By Jonathan Dugdale / 06.09.2017 PhD Candidate...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.05.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – The Middle Kingdom 1.1 –...
Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate 1 – The Mythical Period 1.1 – Introduction 1.1.1 – Overview...
Terracotta Army detail, Xi’an, China / Photo by Peter Morgan, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Rolando Minuti /...
These “oracle bone” fragments, some of which show an ancient Chinese script, are housed at the Royal...