In the sweltering summer of the year 18 CE, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains:“Heaven has gone ...

MORE than 1,500 years ago, poet Lu Kai, living in the south, sent a sprig of plum blossom to his friend Fan Ye in ...

She is one of three “great lives” acting as signposts in Canadian writer Madeleine Thien’s abstract and momentous new book ...

Novels by Stephen King and Ocean Vuong, Ron Chernow’s latest blockbuster biography, a new graphic novel by Alison Bechdel and ...

In late May, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) will present two programmes featuring masterpieces by ...

Singapore Chinatown, which is about a 45-minute walk from Gardens by the Bay and Marina Bay Sands, is an ethnic enclave ...

The topography, rendered primarily in green and light brown, evokes the aesthetic of qinglyu shanshui — the "blue-and-green ...

Measuring 35.5 meters in height, the Giant Buddha in Cave 96 bore witness to the power and ambition of Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty (618-907). [Photo/Courtesy of Dunhuang Academy] True to its ...

"The frescoes' historical value can never be overestimated given the fact that few Tang Dynasty paintings, and ever fewer pieces of architecture, have survived to this date," says Zhong.

As the morning sun spills across the tiered courtyards connected by stone stairs at the Datang Gong (Tribute) Tea House in ...

The Day One executive orders included—and depended on—the President’s formal, executive declarations of not one, not two, but ...