There Chinese writing traditional stands out for its style vertical writingin columns from top to bottom. This practice, ...

"Gentlemen of Suzhou" exhibits artwork by masters from the Ming Dynasty. There are five kinds of objects on display: ink paintings with short poems on paper, paintings on long vertical silk scrolls, ...

his academic interest mainly covers literature from the Western Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th century-771 BC) to the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). For Kern, this is a period when early China's textual ...

There is not a ton of evidence of what education looked like in ancient society, but we do know it existed - although not for ...

Kern says that there was a time when discussions of classical studies in the West revolved largely around ancient Greece and ...

Each tiny pile represented a shot in the dark: the remains of an exploratory dig for signs of China’s oldest archaeologically attested dynasty. Beneath our feet ... which Wang identified as a form of ...

One of the earliest forms of Chinese writing is preserved in the simple inscriptions ... or the ancestors to whom they were dedicated. During the succeeding Zhou dynasty, written characters became ...

One of the earliest forms of Chinese writing is preserved in the simple inscriptions ... or the ancestors to whom they were dedicated. During the succeeding Zhou dynasty, written characters became ...