The collapse of the Han dynasty during the second and third centuries A.D., together with the political, social, and economic troubles that it brought about, resulted in a period of intellectual ...

From the gigantic Persian empire, to the expansive British Empire, which dominated most of the world during the middle and ...

Chinese archaeologists have reconstructed 6,000 intricately designed composite armour scales, marking the first discovery of ...

The official reign name, which symbolises a new start, was coined by Wang Mang, then a minister and “consort kin” of the Han dynasty (206BC ... is why some Chinese history enthusiasts call ...

History records that Liu was given his own territory (Han), but later overthrew Xiang Yu, claiming the title Emperor Gaozu of Han. His dynasty ruled for four centuries, expanding its territory ...

Ban Zhao, the renowned Chinese historian of Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), is known for her famous work Han Shu, or Chronicle of Han Dynasty, which is one of the best-known histories ever written.

Throughout history, as any anthropologist will tell ... In this programme, we are in Han Dynasty China, two thousand years ago, exploring the giving of Imperial gifts - an activity which straddles ...

The history of Wang Mang, a Han dynasty minister and imperial cousin who later founded his own short-lived dynasty, resonates ...

The Yangzhong Chen Lüsheng Art Museum in East China's Jiangsu Province is hosting a new exhibition on the latest research achievements in Han Dynasty (206BC-AD220) paintings. Expert teams from ...