It's "like being thrust into a cross between the movie Inception and a game of snakes and ladders," according to one visitor.

Researchers have unearthed the surveillance records of Taiwan’s former dictatorship. But the revelations inside could tear ...

A “no photograph upon landing” announcement punctured the serene silence of the cabin as I gazed at the snow-capped peaks outside our airplane window, a stark reminder that we were entering a land of ...

Chinatowns are often portrayed as gritty underworlds riddled with prostitution, gambling and drug trafficking. Some of this is rooted in truth, but that unfair depiction is largely the result of ...

In the sweltering summer of the year 18 CE, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains:“Heaven has gone ...

On a few occasions in history, Tibet fell under the rule of emperors in Beijing, most recently during the Qing dynasty starting ... just outside the Tibetan capital Lhasa, I realized the thin ...

Beijing was the capital city for the Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. Except for the Ming Dynasty, all the rulers of these dynasties were from northern nomadic tribes. For those 500 ...

Taiwan’s capital city is home to some of the country's ... Dutch East India Company and was Taiwan's capital during the Qing Dynasty. Highlights include the Chihkan Towers and Fort Anping ...

The exhibition presents the city’ s history in six ... ⑸ The world renowned Yuan Dynasty capital of Dadu; ⑹ The political center of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The majority of the objects ...

Invented in the Song Dynasty, it was created in a form closer to a bao and ... “There was this movement to rename the Chinese ...