COTONOU, Benin — In a modest yet vibrant martial arts club in Akpro-Misserete, a town some 40 kilometers northeast of Benin's ...

Photo provided to China Daily] Xiamen, a picturesque city situated on the eastern coast of China's Fujian province, boasts a ...

The second piece, Zhong Ming He (Chimes of Celebration), was composed by Tan Dun and inspired by Qing-era golden bell chimes ...

Nearly a millennium after his death, the legacy of Su Shi, China's beloved writer, statesman and gastronome, continues to ...

We are in the middle of a global workplace burnout epidemic—aptly named the "burnout society" by Korean-German philosopher ...

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study ...

Pat Riddell, editor of National Geographic Traveller (UK), said: “Our competition goes from strength to strength, with this ...

The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were smuggled into the United States in the 1940s. Scholars say they provide remarkable insights ...

Emperor Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty was the first emperor of ancient China and ruled from 221 B.C. to 210 B.C. He's most ...

Led by the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), the team’s technique allows for precise dating even of the smallest samples of ancient ... With a half-life of roughly 229,000 ...

Workers unpack a box containing the remnants of an ancient Chinese silk manuscript at Beijing Capital International Airport on Sunday before delivering them to the National Administration of Cultural ...

But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving star catalogs — the Star Manual of Master Shi — might be more ancient than we thought. It might rewrite the history of astronomy ...