like China today, mass-produced trade goods and exported them by sea. Working in shifts until the monsoon stopped them, a team of divers retrieved the ancient artifacts. The treasure—much of it ...

Dancing across them were inky dongba characters, an ancient Naxi script predating written Chinese and one of the ... and costume rental shops run a brisk trade of fur-trimmed chuba robes and ...

Yet less than a century later, all overseas trade was banned, and it became a capital offense to set sail from China in a multi-masted ship. What explains this astonishing reversal of policy?

IN his Conway Memorial Lecture, "Science and Society in Ancient China", delivered on May 12, 1947, Dr. Joseph Needham attempts to sketch a pattern of the organisation of Chinese feudal society and ...

slapping additional tariffs of 10-15 per cent on selected American goods and announcing plans to bring a case to the World Trade Organization over the matter. 2. China to be ‘main beneficiary ...

JERUSALEM, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a 1,200-year-old clay jug adorned with camel decorations in an underground cave in southern Israel's Yatir Forest, the Israel ...