Chen Hongyan, a research librarian with National Library of China (NLC), has been engaged in the preservation and public ...

IN his Conway Memorial Lecture, "Science and Society in Ancient China", delivered on May 12, 1947, Dr. Joseph Needham attempts to sketch a pattern of the organisation of Chinese feudal society and its ...

The McDonald’s on the corner was the first sign that Meng Qinglong’s Beijing neighborhood would never be the same. Meng, 42, has lived his whole life in the same house — a simple two-room brick ...

Archaeologists have long known that complex societies can rise, flourish and then disappear so completely that only scattered ruins hint at what was lost. Now a new wave of research is sharpening the ...

Peking University, June 10, 2025: In a discovery that sheds new light on the lives of prehistoric people in China, a team of researchers from Peking University and the Shandong Institute of Cultural ...

Scientists in China have discovered one of the oldest known matrilineal societies—where family lines and inheritance are traced through a community’s women, not its men. Archaeologists unearthed the ...

BEIJING, CHINA / ACCESS Newswire / October 25, 2025 / The consumption season of the 2025 Beijing Chaoyang International Light Festival is now underway, transforming the capital's nights with a ...

In the four decades since its discovery, the Fujia archaeological site in east China’s Shandong province has repeatedly proven fertile ground for researchers. Located in the lower reaches of the ...

Introduction -- The landscapes of the Nile and Yellow River -- Empire and diplomacy -- Akhenaten, Wang Mang, and the limits of reform -- Legal principles and the administration of justice -- Scribal ...