(Some history books say yi was made from millet ... Sea cucumbers and prawns are native to China, but only became imperial dishes much later. As cities and towns began to develop and thrive ...

and cultural changes and continuities of the period often conceptualized as 'Middle Imperial China'. Particular emphasis is given to themes that inform scholarship on world history: religion, the ...

China’s Communist Party often speaks proudly about what it claims to be 5,000 years of Chinese civilization. But its leaders are still struggling to decide what they should say about the past ...

She follows its development from the rise of Confucianism, Buddhism, and the great imperial dynasties to ... and disjunctures of Chinese history, Professor Ebrey’s book has become an indispensable ...

The history of Wang Mang, a Han dynasty minister and imperial cousin who later founded his own short-lived dynasty, resonates ...

The decline and collapse of imperial China in the 1800s and early 1900s, however, diminished Chinese influence on the global stage for more than a century. In the past two decades, China has ...

(Some history books say yi was made from millet ... Sea cucumbers and prawns are native to China, but only became imperial dishes much later. As cities and towns began to develop and thrive ...