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On November 14, 2020, Stephen Ellison, the newly appointed British consul-general in Chongqing, was visiting a nearby tourist attraction when he saw a...

For most of its history, China was not isolationist. For nearly 1,500 years up to the 14th century, China was a major trading nation. Maritime trade b...

For most of time since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty in the second half of the 14th century till the early 1980s, trading with the rest of the...

China’s total fertility rate has been below 2.1 for nearly three decades, the necessary number of children born to every woman to maintain current pop...

Anything in today’s toolbox for care for the elderly can be found in ancient China. The question is how old was regarded as old enough to be entitled...

No other scholar in China’s history has had such a deep influence on popular culture as Su Dongpo, one of the brightest stars in the vast galaxy of C...

The anticipated listing and the unexpected suspension put the microloan business of Alibaba's fintech arm Ant Group in the media spotlight. Chinese pe...

Do people travel just because they got rich enough to afford a trip? “The world is so big, and I want to look at it,” says a middle school teacher fr...

A group of young women in Shanghai group-bought luxury bags and booking rooms at five-star hotels just to take photos and pass them off as their own ...

To a large extent, food supply shaped the development of the world’s early civilizations, including those in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and India. In ...

There was a lot of imagination in narratives on rural areas in ancient China. For thousands of years, rural villages have existed. Why would they nee...

“Tragic family of origin”, a term taken from family counseling, has become a hashtag in recent years after stories of conflict between parents and chi...