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 ...

Across the country, at the stroke of midnight, fireworks displays explode under the night sky to mark the beginning of a new ...

About 1,200 years ago, the Chinese set fire to bamboo tubes filled with gunpowder – and ever since, fireworks have been used ...

"I create images of life or depiction of life with a destructive element. Initially in ancient China, gunpowder was originally invented as an elixir of eternal life." The Inverness College UHI art ...