Show more In China’s Greatest Treasures, BBC art historian Alastair Sooke travels through modern day China to discover that much of what defines Chinese culture today can be traced back through ...

Show more In China’s Greatest Treasures, BBC art historian Alastair Sooke travels through modern day China to discover that much of what defines Chinese culture today can be traced back through ...

In the 1400s, China owned the greatest seagoing fleet in the world, 3,500 ships. But by 1525, China's "Treasure Fleet" was destroyed. The Treasure Fleet was abandoned at the urging of a political ...

I do a quick calculation: over the past decade, Sun must have burned through some 260 pairs of shoes as he's carried out his crusade to protect one of China's greatest treasures—and to preserve ...

Their work also extends to ornate antique clocks, gifts from early European visitors to China's emperors. These intricate timepieces, now historical relics themselves, receive the same meticulous care ...