Emperor Gaozu, who founded the Tang dynasty in AD618, was one such unwilling retiree. In AD626, Gaozu's second son murdered two of his brothers and their male children, before forcing his father ...

Tang Emperor Li Zhi (628-683 ... Though she changed the Li house's Tang Dynasty into the Wu's Zhou Dynasty, she had trouble choosing a successor and finally ordered in her will a return of ...

Only one woman has ever sat on China’s throne as Emperor in her own right. That woman was Wu Zetian (624-705) of the Tang dynasty. And to get there, she left behind a trail of bodies that even ...

To truly appreciate Xi'an's historical significance during the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907), visit the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda ...

In the Tang Dynasty it was common practice to erect inscribed ... One poem goes: "On armored horses the Emperor won the world under Heaven, and stone images of the Six Steeds are as distinguished ...

fifty years after the collapse of the Tang Dynasty. After a period of initial resistance, the Song achieved a rapprochement with the Liao court, thus offering prestige to the Khitan emperors. The ...

This story appears in the June 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The world economy in the ninth century had two powerful engines. One was Tang dynasty China, an empire stretching from ...

By "interpreting rituals with benevolence", Confucius, a pioneering educator who also first initiated private schools in ...

Boasting a total of 196 ancient artifacts, an exhibition dedicated to the culture surrounding the Maitreya Buddha, or the ...

During the search, he was attacked by the ghost and half-demon Emperor Jun. On the trail, the two killers continued to fight each other with dead bodies everywhere. In the end, both sides suffered ...

Chinese sports have existed for as long as civilisation has existed, some games were strikingly similar to today's ...

When the dark evil immortal descends from the heaven, and the mysterious underground ghost palace was revealed, a strange herb named the Black Tea suddenly took Chang'an City by storm. However, no ...