In shows and films, famous historical people in ancient ... wore make-up. A Chinese study explored how people in the middle and upper classes used cosmetics during the Tang dynasty (618-907).

As the Qin, China's first dynasty, lasted only from 221 to 206 BC, that sentence may strike you as reckless hyperbole. Mao certainly didn't think so. In May 1958, having silenced most of China's ...

The Xi’an Centre Culture Business District (CCBD), a 155,000 sq m neighbourhood designed by UK architect Heatherwick Studio, ...

An often overlooked, yet highly impactful world cinema industry in the last few decades, Chinese cinema remains widely known ...

Which would you like to have been? Who was Fu Hao? Fu Hao lived during the Shang Dynasty of ancient China and was the only female head of the army. She was very important and buried with treasures.

Say the word Xi'an, and people think of the Chinese city's astounding collection of terracotta warriors, created to guard the Emperor Qin Shi Huang's tomb in the third century B.C. But on a recent ...

Shaanxi province saw a surge in international tourists during this year's Spring Festival holiday as China celebrated the ...

As the Year of the Snake has begun in China, the nation's economy faces huge domestic and foreign challenges. Can introspection and resilience, which the Chinese associate with snakes, help ...

Ancient Egyptian person: Well it’s not! We need to know exactly when the river will flood, so that we plant our crops at the right time. That way, we can take advantage of all the nutrients left ...

But that's what happened with Dynasty Warriors, a series which pioneered the so-called "1 vs 1,000" gameplay, in which the player defeats thousands of enemies in each level. Throughout years of ...