The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...

Hong Kong’s Grenfell Tower Moment: When Grief Became Sedition The claim that China is 5,000 years old conflates “Chinese civilization” with the modern nation-state of the People’s Republic of China.

Ancient Egypt, China and Mesopotamia are all frequently cited as long-lasting civilizations, enduring for thousands of years. But which of these societies lasted the longest? It turns out, that's not ...

Editors’ note: Angelo M. Codevilla, who died on September 21, 2021, was reviewing final edits on this essay at the time of his death. Since few doubt that the increasingly numerous Chinese people are ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several famous ...

Beijing, China, Sept. 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rivers are the cradle of human civilization. From the cuneiform writing of Euphrates and Tigris to the pyramids along the Nile, from the urban grids ...

The launch of an international communication campaign to promote the Sanxingdui Ruins in September 2025 at the Sanxingdui Forum in Deyang, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, marks more than just ...

By strengthening cultural confidence, deepening cultural innovation and improving the nation's ability to tell its stories to the world, China can continue shaping a global narrative that reflects its ...

THE reader who takes up this volume, expecting to find it an ordinary popular sketch of Chinese life and manners, similar to dozens of others which have gone by and dozens which are doubtless yet to ...