The present-day Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, particularly around the Kunlun Mountains, is famed for its jade production.
When Frenchman Remi Launay, 29, visited Beijing's Yuanmingyuan, or Old Summer Palace, in summer, the lines of a letter by ...
The umbrella on display was given to Lieutenant Thomas Walsh, at the end of World War I, by members of the Chinese Labour Corps, who worked in northern France helping Britain and France in the war ...
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The tea thief
It had taken Robert Fortune years of extensive planning and three months of arduous travel by boat, sedan chair and on foot disguised as a mandarin. His aim was to reach the black tea hills in the ...
Une passion chinoise, the exhibition organized at the Musée du Louvre, offers us a fascinating dive into the little-known ...
Mangaluru: A session on the topic ‘Himalayan Geopolitics' held as part of the seventh edition of the Mangaluru Literature ...
Hong Kong has long been one of the world's best places to celebrate Chinese New Year. And with the Year of the Snake right ...
Shujun Wang seemed to be a Chinese democracy activist, but an F.B.I. investigation showed just how far China will go to ...
An aerial photo of the Putuo Zongcheng Temple, one of the outlying temples of the Chengde Mountain Resort built to forge connections with other ethnic groups during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
Fortunately, they met a local man surnamed Yang in his 70s who had previously resided in the mountains but had left years before, only returning occasionally to gather herbs. After a two-hour hike ...