This story appears in the June 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The world economy in the ninth century had two powerful engines. One was Tang dynasty China, an empire stretching from ...

Though she changed the Li house's Tang Dynasty into the Wu's Zhou Dynasty, she had trouble choosing a successor and finally ordered in her will a return of the throne to the Li house's offspring.

A Chinese study explored how people in the middle and upper classes used cosmetics during the Tang dynasty (618-907). The researchers found that make-up was a fun part of daily life for those who ...

This period was known as the Shang dynasty. King Tang: I am King Tang and I rule over this land. Narrator: The Shang dynasty was located near the Yellow River. The river made the land good for ...