Legend has it that in the Ming Dynasty, this area housed barrel-makers employed by Shen Wansan, Jiangnan's richest merchant.

"If you have that map and walk through the town ... [Xinhua/Guo Chen] Shexian's ancient walls, together with 13 other ancient walls in China, have been placed under a project of application for the ...

Yet the answers remained elusive — until his quest connected him remotely with researchers at the Jingdezhen Ancient Ceramic ...

A map reveals the fascinating amount of languages spoken in China. From Mandarin, Cantonese, Tibetan, to Mongolian and Korean, China is definitely one of the world's countries with the most ...

By James Amoh Junior, GNA Special Correspondent in Beijin, ChinaBeijing, April 23, GNA – The majestic Great Wall of China, is ...

Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, once a key point on the ancient Silk Road, was frequently plagued by bandit attacks before the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, forcing the ...

China and beyond. Most of the Malaysians I know have never visited Perlis. The mostly agricultural state in the far north of the Malay Peninsula shares a land border with Thailand and is better ...

Young Hong Kong musicians are recreating the “lost music” of ancient China through unique compositions and have performed the pieces in the West for the first time with groundbreaking concerts ...

China's new breakthrough in magnetic detection technology could boost the country's naval warfare capabilities.

China’s government unveiled a fresh plan last week - one that spells out several "ambitious" new goals for the aluminum sector. The new Chinese roadmap stresses better and more eco-friendly ...

Discovery in China of tools called Quina scrapers suggests the people of East Asia were as inventive and flexible with ...