"Pre-Zhou" refers to the period when the Zhou still paid allegiance to the Shang Dynasty and prospered in present-day Shaanxi, before taking up arms against the Shang ruler and replaced it. The last ...

Literally, Chenghou and Zhaohou refer to King Cheng and King Zhao of Western Zhou, respectively. Both bamboo books, written in ancient Chinese, discuss early Western Zhou history and the political ...

Under the artistic direction of renowned virtuoso Yuen Siufai, audiences will be brought back to the Three Kingdoms era of ...

By 221 BCE, the final kingdom fell, and Zheng proclaimed himself Qin Shi Huangdi or "First Sovereign Emperor of the Qin Dynasty". He called the united empire "Qin", which many academics believe is ...

Photo shows a Tang Dynasty (618-907) gold-backed bronze mirror featuring auspicious animals housed in the Xi'an Museum in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province. (Photo courtesy of the Xi'an Museum ...