Emperor Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty was the first emperor of ancient China and ruled from 221 B.C. to 210 B.C. He's most ...

The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were smuggled into the United States in the 1940s. Scholars say they provide remarkable insights ...

Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost ...

In Chinese, the ancient Nestorian Church is called jing jiao (景教), or “the Religion of Bright Light.” After the fall of the Tang dynasty, the arrival of Nestorian Christianity in China was ...

Religious temples across China shelter thousands of ancient trees, including species extinct in the wild.

What Jesus’ death means for how I make sense of my culture’s traditional religious practices. If you ever visit the Temple of Heaven in Beijing—ancient China’s largest center for high ...

Any religion other than Buddhism ... according to Black Belt Magazine. Ancient Chinese were avid writers and philosophers — especially during the Ming and Qing dynasties — and that is ...

The Classic of Mountains and Rivers, or Shan Hai Jing, is an ancient Chinese classic encompassing legends, geography, history, astronomy, animals, plants, medicine, religion, anthropology ...

Police in China have given protesters who blocked demolitions at an ancient mosque a deadline ... to “Sinicise” the country’s ethnic and religious minorities. On Saturday, dozens of officers ...