On May 30, a 30-year-old man identified only as Sun was visiting the Xi'an museum that houses China's famous Terracotta Army ...

A low-ranking soldier wears his hair tied in a topknot ... Shortly after the emperor’s death, the Qin dynasty fell apart, to be replaced by the Han. In the turmoil of that transition, there ...

Many of the extraordinary properties of carbon nanotubes 1 depend on their diameter. The smallest carbon nanotubes have been associated with the smallest fullerenes 2, with nanotube diameters of 7 ...

In c. 220 B.C., under Qin Shi Huang, sections of earlier fortifications were joined together to form a united defence system against invasions from the north. Construction continued up to the Ming ...

Dang said chemical analysis of the chariots indicated that the process during the Qin Dynasty was no better than that of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC). "But in terms of manufacturing and ...

The Imperial Palace of the Qing Dynasty in Shenyang consists of 114 buildings constructed between 1625–26 and 1783. It contains an important library and testifies to the foundation of the last dynasty ...

report Lin Qi and Liu Kun in Wuhan. "Roars the Yangtze River, sweeping everything eastward; the currents surge, in an unremitting way just like the emergence and disappearance of these luminous ...

As the Qin, China's first dynasty, lasted only from 221 to 206 BC, that sentence may strike you as reckless hyperbole. Mao certainly didn't think so. In May 1958, having silenced most of China's ...

There’s a whole host of hair products on the market that promise to provide volume but, when it comes to achieving a salon-style finish, the best hot brushes are hard to beat. Typically ...