The apparent contradiction begins immediately, with the book’s title: “Healing with Poisons.” But in this sweeping examination of poison’s role in medieval Chinese medicine, Yan Liu, assistant ...

Long before modern observatories and spacecraft, court scribes in ancient China were quietly building one of humanity’s first ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...

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Ultimately, these 573 fortresses redefine what we know about northern China’s prehistory. Long before the first emperors ...

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The modern house cat reached China in the 8th century. Before that, another cat — the leopard cat — hunted the rodents in ancient Chinese settlements.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. – The apparent contradiction begins immediately, with the book’s title: “Healing with Poisons.” But in this sweeping examination of poison’s role in medieval Chinese medicine, Yan Liu, ...