Visitors to Shiban Street, a stone-slab lane in Duyun, Guizhou province, walk between rows of stilted wooden houses on paving ...

ISTANBUL, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- Preventive conservation and sustainable heritage management are at the forefront of global museum practice today, with leading institutions employing advanced security, ...

Access to this vast complex of grand palaces, abundant gardens, and sacred pavilions was off limits to most of imperial China's people, who could only imagine the grandeur beyond the gates. Hall of ...

The wooden stilted houses of Tujia ethnic group in Shuangfeng Village in Central China's Hunan Province Photos: Courtesy of the local publicity department ...

When Ho Puay-peng first visited Beijing’s Forbidden City in the late 1980s, the Singaporean architect saw many of the historic courtyards used for storage, filled with garbage, and occupied by danwei ...

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 ...

Ancient Engineering That Defied Time The Great Wall stretches over 13,000 miles across the northern borders of China and was built over centuries by China's emperors to protect their territory. Recent ...

This video traces China’s tumultuous transformation from the Boxer Uprising of 1900 through the fall of the Qing dynasty and ...

Zheng Xie, also known as Zheng Banqiao, holds a distinctive place in ancient China's art history for his poetry, painting and ...

The early Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) was an age of scented robes and refined accessories. The aesthetic taste of the Ming Dynasty was rich and vibrant. Young women shone in brightly colored dresses ...

In the late Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), scholarly achievement and ceremonial dress were intertwined. In this episode of Into Chinese Art, Professor Jiang Yuqiu of the Beijing Institute of Fashion ...

EVEN in democratic societies, power eventually ends up in the hands of a few, leading inevitably to a dominant elite rule. With absolute certainty, Robert Michels, a German-born social scientist, ...