ONE day in January 1949, an LST flying the red-and-blue ensign of Nationalist China pulled away from the dock at Nanking and headed down the muddy Yangtze, its tank deck crammed with a priceless cargo ...

A decorative box that is believed to have been bought by an army major shortly after World War II is up for auction — again. The box, made for the 15th century emperor Xuande, has been sitting in the ...

BEIJING, Oct 23 (Reuters) - A reprint of a book attributing the end of the Ming dynasty 400 years ago to the ineptitude of a Chinese emperor was pulled from shelves last week, in an apparent purge of ...

Temporary dams (left) near the confluence of the Min and Jin Rivers in China’s Sichuan Province have allowed archaeologists to excavate more than 76,000 artifacts. Many of these artifacts belonged to ...