Distinctive in taste and famously divisive, durian is not everyone's choice of fruit. This was certainly the case for some ...

For little under fourteen years, the Taiping Rebellion waged over China. Seventeen provinces were ravished and the estimated ...

Ming, the world’s oldest known animal, lived for 507 years before being accidentally killed by humans in 2006.

As an officially commissioned Buddhist canon from the Ming Dynasty, its calligraphy, engraving, and binding reflect the ...

Renowned for its exquisite Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) murals, the Guanyin Temple is located in Xinjin district, Chengdu, in ...