Wu Zetian, was a formidable figure in 7th-century China who defied societal norms and ascended from a teenage concubine to become the only woman in Chinese history to rule under her own name. This ...

Book: 17 x 13 in. (43.2 x 33 cm.) Michael Kenna's platinum prints capturing Huangshan, a mountain range in Eastern China, are presented alongside forty poems from the Tang Dynasty, known as the Golden ...

It's a sure sign of middle age they say if, when you pick up the newspaper, you turn first to the obituaries. But middle-aged or not, most of us, I suspect, would love to know what people will ...

The Song of Six Realms (Bloomsbury), Judy I Lin’s third book following the Book of Tea duology ( A Magic Steeped in Poison ...

This Personnel policy helped to develop the bureaucratic apparatus at all levels, greatly strengthening the feudalistic power of the early Tang Dynasty. Also buried in Zhaoling were chieftains of ...

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 ...

When I was invited to talk about the civil service exams and Tang Dynasty poetry to a class of seventh graders, I consulted my go-to text, An Anthology of Chinese Literature, Beginnings to 1911, ...

If you want to explore some of the most exquisite pieces of pottery in history, and some of the most expensive vases, we’ll have to go back hundreds of years to the golden age of Chinese ... by the ...

Tea was popular in the Tang Dynasty. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties prominent officials and eminent people used tea drinking as an occasion to foster friendships and discuss poetry.

This period was known as the Shang dynasty. King Tang: I am King Tang and I rule over this land. Narrator: The Shang dynasty was located near the Yellow River. The river made the land good for ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Age of Dynasty Age of Dynasty is an open-world survival game that spans from the end of the Stone Age to the future PlayStation showed off new (and old ...

CNBC Select will update as changes are made public. How much you should be saving for retirement is an age-old question that just about everybody wants to know. While the answer has a lot to do ...