Explore 10 truly bizarre royal deaths, showcasing the often strange and tragic fates of historical figures. 1. Hatshepsut, ...

Children and young adults sing at the ceremony paying tribute to Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor, the legendary ancestor of the Chinese nation, on Sunday. [Photo by Mu Jialiang/For China Daily] A grand ...

The days of ‘cash as king’ are fading. Today, credit, debit, and digital currency have begun to slowly replace cash as the primary forms of payment, but it was not always so. For centuries, paper ...

An exhibition of the famed clay soldiers sculpted more than 2,000 years ago last visited Orange County in 2011.

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Qin Shi Huang, the inaugural Emperor of China, orchestrated a dramatic ascent to power in a mere nine years, a feat emblematic of his strategic prowess. Born amidst political intrigue and familial ...

Siddhartha Gautama, the Lord Buddha, was born in 623 B.C. in the famous gardens of Lumbini, which soon became a place of pilgrimage. Among the pilgrims was the Indian emperor Ashoka, who erected one ...

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Jade dragon from the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th century-11th century BC). [Photo provided to China Daily] Wen Yiduo (1899-1946), a celebrated Chinese scholar and poet of his time, posited that the image ...