Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire.

China, one of the world's most ancient civilizations ... With the Xia Dynasty, China entered slave society. The following Shang (1600-1046 B.C.) and Western Zhou (1046-771 B.C.) dynasties saw ...

The 1,300-year-old tomb of one of ancient China's most influential women has been found in Shaanxi Province, adding another chapter to a soap-opera tale of slavery, redemption, intrigue and beheading.

In ancient China, although Taoist empirical mysticism ... and that a moral question such as slavery may be closely connected with technical factors. Philosophical and ethical thought, he believes ...

The effects of ancient slavery, on the other hand, aren’t as tangible today – and most Americans have only a vague idea of what it looked like. Some people might think of biblical stories ...

An estimated 30 million people worldwide are living in modern-day slavery, according to the inaugural Global Slavery Index published yesterday. The index, compiled by the Walk Free Foundation ...

Shocking details have now emerged in the slavery case, with two of the victims telling their stories to Chinese news site Thepaper.cn. The men are from provinces across China but they all had one ...

Police in China spent the weekend making hundreds of arrests in a growing slavery scandal that has appalled the country. Heng Tinghan, accused of enslaving workers, is escorted by plainclothes ...