Translating to “Clear and Fast,” Lin began designing the MingKwai sometime during the 1940s. Instead of trying to overlay ...

There is a long and venerated history of education and intellectual achievement in Chinese culture and history. One could ...

Many valuable inventions have ancient Greek origins ... Its use by mariners continued until the development of reliable mechanical clocks in the 17th and 18th centuries. Today, watching a play ...

Usually when we think of computers, we probably imagine glowing displays, interconnected networks sharing digital information, and more software applications than anyone one person could ever come ...

Breitling is celebrating 140 years spanning a history of firsts, recent developments and a ... equipped with a Breitling pocket chronograph with a tachymeter scale! The invention, in 1915, of the ...

Shi’s Star Catalog has been notoriously difficult to date, but new research suggests astronomers drafted it centuries before its Western counterpart.

To track the species' decline, researchers have turned to an unusual source— ancient Chinese poetry. Researchers analyzed 724 ancient Chinese poems that referenced the Yangtze porpoise.

Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

II and III: Wuxing Ling and Gongshou Zhan, held at the Chinese Embassy in Washington on Friday. [Photo provided to China Daily] A batch of ancient Chinese silk manuscript fragments, believed to be ...

This year, Chinese microblogs have been abuzz with gadgets and inventions that could help make gruelling journeys a little easier. One of the most talked-about is the "Hard Seat Treasure", a metal ...

On the fertile land of Shanxi, where the essence of Chinese civilization thrives, lie the most magnificent codes of ancient Chinese architecture. From the towering Buddhist temples to the ...

The scientists pored over more than 700 ancient Chinese poems from the Tang through the Qing dynasties that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to find out where and when poets described seeing ...