Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The phrase “moveable feast” often brings to mind the title of Ernest Hemingway’s memoir about his ...

China's long history has seen some extremely important inventions emerge, most noticeably gunpowder, paper making, printing and the compass, which, in the words of Roger Bacon, changed the whole ...

The Rainbow Bridge built in the NOVA program "China Bridge" is just one of many important inventions that appeared during China's impressive Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1280). This vibrant period in ...

A firearm dating to circa-1540 was recently found in southern Arizona.

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 ...