Known for introducing Western science to China, Ricci created the map in 1602 at the request of Emperor Wanli. Ricci's map includes pictures and annotations describing different regions of the world.

There are, as everyone knows, a lot of people in China; around 1.35 billion of them, or roughly 20 percent of the world's population, live within the country's borders. In order to comprehend what ...

A new map published by China that lays claim to almost all of the South China Sea has been rejected by the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan and India.

China is the third largest country in the world after Russia and Canada, covering a whopping 3.7 million square miles. It also boasts the second largest population on the globe with 1.41 billion ...