For over 1300 years, anyone who wanted to become a civil servant in imperial China had to pass the same exam, the keju. The gruelling tests were an egalitarian route to officialdom, but critics ...

For decades, Chinese scholars have been toiling at the party’s behest to draft an official history of the Qing, China’s last imperial dynasty, which the Manchu ethnic group led for nearly 270 ...

More than a hundred years ago in the early part of the 20th century, China was booming, and the governments of the Imperial dynasty and the Republic of China that followed it were borrowing like ...

China's invasion of Taiwan is "imminent" and is a part of a grander strategy to reassert its imperial might around the world, ...

The three main District deposits - Mesquite, Imperial and Picacho - were all discovered by outcrop, while the remainder of the District is under alluvial cover and is largely unexplored.

Alas, not long after securing a jinshi degree at 59, Gui died. The rigours of imperial China’s civil-service examination system—the keju, used to select scholar-officials for over 1,300 years ...