Discover interesting facts about ancient China's rulers, philosophy, and the Great Wall of China.

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several famous ...

What Jesus’ death means for how I make sense of my culture’s traditional religious practices. If you ever visit the Temple of Heaven in Beijing—ancient China’s largest center for high-level ...

Named after the sage Confucius (b. 551 B.C.E.), Confucianism is one of the most important philosophical traditions in China. Although it’s widely considered a spiritual philosophy, some scholars ...

What the Xi’an stele reveals about the rise and fall of the Nestorian church in the Tang Dynasty. Today, this tradition of Christianity largely exists in the Middle East and is known as the Assyrian ...