A giant statue of China's first emperor has fallen flat on its face - all six tonnes of it. The 19m (62ft) bronze cast of Qin Shi Huang was blown from its stone pedestal in Shandong province ...

The mausoleum of Emperor Qinshihuang (the first Emperor of Qin) is five kilometers east of Lintong County, 35 kilometers from Xi'an City in Shaanxi Province. On its south is Lishan Mountain and to ...

The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany the first emperor of China into the afterlife, according to archaeologists. Ying Zheng took the throne ...

China's first emperor launched an obsessive search for the elixir of life before dying aged 49 in 210 BCE, new archaeological research has revealed. Qin Shi Huang, who created the world-famous ...

By "interpreting rituals with benevolence", Confucius, a pioneering educator who also first initiated private schools in ...

Here, series presenter Rana Mitter tells the story of Wu Zetian, the female Emperor. Only one woman has ever sat on China’s throne as Emperor in her own right. That woman was Wu Zetian (624-705 ...

With a history that spans over 3,000 years, there's a lot to take in Beijing. Discover the Great Wall and Forbidden Palace, ...

This beautiful painting shows that the busy Emperor values his family above all – a prominent concept in Chinese culture ... Hong Kong’s Arts Prize for portrait of Contrinx, a domestic ...

Portrait of Liu Bowen, also known as Liu Ji, by Gu Jianlong. (Alamy) According to folk tales, Chinese rebels during the Yuan Dynasty, led by future Chinese Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang and his military ...

China is marking the 75th year of Communist Party rule as economic challenges and security threats linger over the massive ...

Kublai Khan followed a tentative policy of Sinicization, that is, he adapted to the Chinese way of governing and when you look at his portrait, he looks very much ... Although Kublai Khan tried to ...