There is a long and venerated history of education and intellectual achievement in Chinese culture and history. One could ...

Since the capital had been half destroyed by war, in 722 B.C. the court moved further east to Chengzhou, from which time it became known as the Eastern Zhou dynasty. They ruled during the so-called ...

This ritual vessel was used for offering food to ancestors. This example is decorated with large tusked animal heads swallowing birds. Sacrifices to ancestors ensured the survival and success of ...

Researchers say the tomb belongs to the founding emperor of China's Northern Zhou dynasty ... outlet Xinhua. The period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties was a time of great political ...

This “golden age” has illuminated the artistic and spiritual landscape of a critical period in the country’s history: the multistate Zhou dynasty, which lasted from around 1050 to 221 B.C.E ...

was toppled by a new dynasty, the Zhou. The Zhou came from the west - from the steppes of central Asia. Like the Kushites of Sudan who conquered Egypt at roughly the same time, the Zhou were a ...