Archaeological sites across central China reveal that at various points between 2,500 and 4,000 years ago, disasters rocked ...

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BUFFALO, N.Y. – The apparent contradiction begins immediately, with the book’s title: “Healing with Poisons.” But in this sweeping examination of poison’s role in medieval Chinese medicine, Yan Liu, ...

Lingering ‘idle men’ who hung about outside restaurants preceded today’s delivery drivers; others had their food sent using ...

Chronology of Sinitic cores in the Early Medieval Period -- Introduction -- Metageographies -- China, reconsidered -- Geographical writing -- 1. Geographical writing -- Defining the genre -- Warring ...

When workers in northern China cut into a hillside for a new road, they did not expect to open a window onto a world where a fair-haired foreigner shared space with Tang dynasty nobles. Yet that is ...