Like any adaptation of the Romance Of The Three Kingdoms, Dynasty Warriors: Origins has a massive cast of characters. These ...
To really sell themselves as the best, they painted their pencils yellow, which is used to be considered a royal colour. That’s because, in ancient China, only the emperor was allowed to wear ...
In 1996, archaeologists found the tomb of Emperor Wu-the 6th-century ruler who reigned over the Northern Zhou dynasty from ...
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emphasising that people on both sides were descendants of Emperor Yan and the Yellow Emperor. “Chinese civilisation is the world’s only ancient culture to have endured 5,000 years without inte ...
Alcohol distilled in a replica of a disgraced emperor’s 2,000-year-old bronze vat may help rewrite China’s drinking history.
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Roman Emperor Constans is assassinated and the general Magnentius proclaims himself the new Emperor 1126: Emperor Huizong abdicates the ...
Intellectuals called for a “New Enlightenment,” and an iconoclastic 1988 documentary, “River Elegy,” compared Chinese civilization to a muddied Yellow ... like a final emperor, the breaker ...
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The tea thief
It had taken Robert Fortune years of extensive planning and three months of arduous travel by boat, sedan chair and on foot disguised as a mandarin. His aim was to reach the black tea hills in the ...