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The tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, remains a mystery to this day, despite the discovery of its adjacent ...

Her original first name was considered too inconsequential to enter in the court registry, yet she became the most powerful woman in 19th-century China. Born in 1835 to a prominent Manchu family, Cixi ...

HENGDIAN, China — If you are going to make a movie in China today about ancient warriors defending a mythical kingdom or a partisan resisting the Japanese occupation in the 1930s, or involving any ...

In China's Valley of the Kings, there stands a tall, carved stone. It honors the resting place of a woman named Wu Zetian, who rose from concubine to become China's only female emperor. For more than ...

New archaeological finds suggest China and the west were in contact over 15 hundred years earlier than the time European explorer Marco Polo arrived in China. The Terracotta Warriors in the Mausoleum ...

In Chinese history, there is special term "nuhuo" or "woman disaster". It refers to the situation when an imperial concubine rather than the emperor himself ran state affairs. Ancient scholars thought ...

Seth Faison, a former China correspondent for the New York Times, is the author of "South of the Clouds: Exploring the Hidden Realms of China." IN 1852, a delicate-looking young woman from southern ...