However, almost a thousand years before them, the Christian community thrived in medieval China during the rule of the Tang ...

Tang described him as cooking delicious dishes ... he was able to meet Prince Liao of the Wu State and assassinated him. In the late Shang Dynasty (16th century B.C. – 11th century B.C ...

In Dazu County, some 165 kilometers away from Chongqing, are more than 40 sites of stone carvings with over 50,000 statues of Buddha completed from the late Tang Dynasty (618-907) to the Song ...

These burial figures date from the Tang dynasty in China. If you died in China and you were an important figure, such as an emperor, you would want all of your retinue to come into your tomb as ...

During the Late Tang Dynasty, a manor is invaded by a demon cat and a sense of unrest befalls the capital of Changan. A poet is charged with investigating the case and meets up with a monk.

By the time of the late Ming dynasty (1368-1644AD), it had become ... Catching something like Tang Xianzu’s The Peony Pavilion performed by the city’s oldest kunqu troupe is as close to ...

In the late Tang Dynasty, the national division mobilized people to hunt snakes in large numbers. The white snake that went to assassinate the national teacher accidentally lost his memory and was ...

While the vast majority of Shang and Zhou dynasty ding were produced with rounded bodies, those of rectangular form with four legs (fangding) are comparatively rare. According to legend, the first ...

One English translation reads: Written by the famous late Tang dynasty poet Zhang Jie, the Book Burning Pit is a sarcastic criticism of the Emperor Qin Shi Huang, who ruled China hundreds of years ...

One was Tang dynasty China, an empire stretching from ... The Portuguese entered the Indian Ocean, and by the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Europe had begun to dominate world trade.

Remarkable auctions are shaped by remarkable collections, and Heritage’s September 24 Fine & Decorative Asian Art Signature® Auction is made up of works from more than a dozen distinguished U.S.-based ...

For five years, the two have had a tight friendship involving late-night texts and Lily’s detailed knowledge of his ...