Liu Bang was born into a peasant family in Pei County in modern-day Jiangsu Province in eastern China in the mid-3rd century BCE. Liu rose to become a minor provincial official. Around 210 BCE ...

Known as the "Min Nan Business Godfather", Xu Lianjie, 71, was once the richest person in Fujian province in southeast China.

"Some scholars outside China consider the dwellings to be a natural ... in which privileged youth were sent to rural areas to experience peasant life. Read next ...