China’s “academic pubs” are serving up a free flow of conversation in a country well known for its censorship.

Yesterday Rome's Gregorian University hosted a conference on the great Jesuit missionary's legacy of ‘friendship, dialogue ...

When Emperor Ming saw the Buddha in a dream, he sent a mission to India, triggering a chain of events that led to Buddhism’s ...

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a collection of remarkable architectural achievements, have long captivated the ...

The space superpowers set to land astronauts on the Moon — the U.S. and China — should forge a lunar peace pact protecting ...

Beijing’s preferred form of ethnic minority culture is a sanitized simulacrum featuring plays, theme parks, and other ...

Oracle bones were often made from tortoise shells, as in this photograph, and from the shoulder blades of oxen. According to ...

Members of the Mahasangha, patriarchs of various monastic traditions, monks, nuns, members of the diplomatic community, ...

The inaugural World Conference of Classics, jointly launched by China and Greece, themed "Classical Civilizations and the ...

More than 300 guests from both China and abroad visited the exhibition titled Archaeology and the Origins of Chinese Civilization at the China Archaeological Museum in Beijing on Wednesday, as part of ...

To understand the present, one must first understand its origins.With the inaugural World Conference of Classics set to open in Beijing on Thursday, ...