Experience the vast imperial palace complex, with its intricate rooftops, grand courtyards, and centuries-old architecture, revealing the grandeur and history of China’s ancient dynasties from a ...

Experience the vast imperial palace complex, with its intricate rooftops, grand courtyards, and centuries-old architecture, revealing the grandeur and history of China’s ancient dynasties from a ...

International students don traditional Chinese attire for a photoshoot at the Shenyang Imperial Palace. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] A group of international Shenyang Agricultural ...

How to Rebuild an 800-Year-Old Imperial Palace. ... More than 83 dynasties rose and fell over the course of imperial China’s two-millennia-long history, yet hardly any of the hundreds of palaces they ...

While building the athletes’ Olympic Village for this year’s Winter Games in Beijing, China discovered the remains of an ancient Jin Dynasty (1115–1234) palace. It was found near Taizicheng ...

The rigours of imperial China’s civil-service examination system—the keju, used to select scholar-officials for over 1,300 years—are described in a new book by Yasheng Huang called “The ...

Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty prince and princess–fully intact. Their tombs, filled with grave goods ...

A massive cemetery — including an underground palace and mausoleum — discovered in China may have belonged to an ancient emperor, experts say.

Archaeologists exploring a small village in China announced recently that they discovered three tombs filled with ancient treasures, including gold ornaments, a jade sword and ivory lacquerware.

F or over 1300 years, anyone who wanted to become a civil servant in imperial China had to pass the same exam, the keju.The gruelling tests were an egalitarian route to officialdom, but critics ...