Ancient China’s main rivers ran west to east, and Yang wanted to break this ... and each had its special flair,” Zhou Xinhua, then vice director of a Grand Canal museum in Hangzhou, told ...

Their age, estimated at 2,300 to 2,500 years, places them in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty ... the social and archaeological contexts of ancient China." ...

Located in the ancient capital Xi’an, the university has long focused on archaeological research in the northwestern region of China, uncovering civilizations from Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang ...

where signs provide Pinyin spellings alongside names written in China’s ancient script, to the name of the capital city. Following Zhou’s system, Peking became Beijing, the city of Nanking ...