In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains: "Heaven has gone blind!" ...

Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...

But China is not the Soviet Union. It is not an isolated command economy, nor an empire straining under the weight of its ...

China's naval buildup is overshadowing the US as Chinese leader Xi Jinping pushes the military toward big modernization and ...

Wu Zetian, the only woman to officially rule as emperor of China, amassed an estimated fortune of $16 trillion, exceeding the combined wealth of today ...

Trump is likened to Empress Dowager Cixi, who in 1900 effectively declared war on the Western powers in China, a disastrous move that helped accelerate the collapse of imperial China. By Wang Wen ...

The Empire Strikes Back” could also bring to mind China’s “galaxy empire,” recently depicted by John Keane and Baogang He in ...

Janet Yang, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, recently discussed China's growing cultural impact ...