The Shang Dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BCE) is regarded as a reliable starting point for exploring the origins of Chinese civilization.  [详细]

Yinxu (“The Ruins of Yin”), situated at present-day Xiaotun Village, Anyang, Henan Province, was a seat of royal power for the last nine Shang kin…[详细]

Chinese characters, as the sole ideographic scripts among the multitude of writing systems in use today, hold a remarkable distinction.[详细]

During the rule of Emperor Wu of Han, Dong Zhongshu’s proposal that Confucianism become the unifying ideology of the Han Empire was put into effect.[详细]

In this respect, it is not correct to simply say that Confucianism was against science and technology in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The specific featu…[详细]

In 221 BCE, the Qin wars of conquest brought an end to the Warring States Period, a tumultuous era marked by warfare and fragmentation, resulting in…[详细]

Compared with the pre-Qin cultural Chinese groups and the other ethnicities settled along the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, Qin and Han had fo…[详细]

In ancient times, the characters “hua” and “xia” had the same pronunciation and were interchangeable. Therefore, “zhu-xia” was also referred t…[详细]

The civilizations centered around the Indus River basin, the Mesopotamia, and the Nile River basin collapsed after a period of growth and developmen…[详细]