China’s famous Shaolin Temple monastery complex is known by many today for kung fu legends, but its history is woven with Buddhism, monk warriors, and survival.
Richard Heinberg, renowned energy and sustainability expert, explores the development of social power – simply defined as the ability to get other people to do something.
Archaeologists think the missing foot of a woman buried in China almost 3,000 years ago was amputated as a criminal punishment, according to a new study.
Construction officially completed on China s first archaeological museum, the Shaanxi Archaeology Museum, on Saturday. The museum in Northwest China s Shaanxi Province, where the famed Terracotta Warriors is located, is scheduled to be opened to the public later in 2022, according to a Saturday press release that the Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology sent to the Global Times.
The I Ching has served for thousands of years as a philosophical taxonomy of the universe, a guide to an ethical life, a manual for rulers, and an oracle of one’s personal future and the future of the state. It was an organizing principle or authoritative proof for literary and arts criticism, cartography, medicine, and many of the sciences, and it generated endless Confucian,