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, assistant ...

The rubbing of a tomb epitaph of a deceased elite (Du Zhongliang 杜忠良) in the Tang Dynasty. Red = surname and choronym; Blue = grandfather and father’s full name and office rank; Yellow = the deceased ...

Education is valued today because it is viewed as an avenue for social mobility and a means for people who grew up poor to improve their lot in life and find opportunities to support themselves and ...

Falun Gong practitioners enact 'live organ harvesting' in a protest in Hong Kong. The China Tribunal found evidence that China’s former president Jiang Zemin issued written orders to harvest organs ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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

Obtaining high status was likely as easy for men in the Tang Dynasty as for men in the modern US, a study suggests. It found that social mobility for men at the time could be compared to that of the ...

GUANGZHOU/ROME, March 31 (Xinhua) -- The story of young Venetian merchant and explorer Marco Polo is to be retold to his compatriots, as the Carlo Felice Theater (CFT) signed in Rome a memorandum of ...