Combining the writing on the bones with paleoclimate reconstructions, the team found how typhoon activity helped shift the ...

While being plump had a place in China's history, extreme diets, constricting clothes formed part of nation's centuries-old ...

More than 2,000 years ago, Laozi was all too familiar with the pitfalls of comparing yourself to other people’s ...

In the ancient East, death wasn't an end—it was a trial. Known as 'Diyu,' the Chinese underworld was a vast, 18-level ...

Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, ...

(Reuters) -In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now ...

Condoms made from dried fish maw, hanging women upside down, pregnancy prevention was a dangerous business for women in ...

During the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), flogging was a form of punishment in which court officials were publicly beaten with heavy rods. The striking end of the rod was carved into ...