This story appears in the June 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The world economy in the ninth century had two powerful engines. One was Tang dynasty China, an empire stretching from ...

Liu Tingxun pursued his illustrious, if turbulent, career in the high days of the Tang Dynasty, which ran from ... The horses and the camels in the general's entourage show that Liu Tingxun ...

Though she changed the Li house's Tang Dynasty into the Wu's Zhou Dynasty, she had trouble choosing a successor and finally ordered in her will a return of the throne to the Li house's offspring.

General Li Yuan, who led the revolt ... such as Korea and Japan. They looked to Tang Dynasty rulers in order to use their ...

A Chinese study explored how people in the middle and upper classes used cosmetics during the Tang dynasty (618-907). The researchers found that make-up was a fun part of daily life for those who ...

When I was invited to talk about the civil service exams and Tang Dynasty poetry to a class of seventh graders, I consulted my go-to text, An Anthology of Chinese Literature, Beginnings to 1911, ...

A tablet inscribed with 580 characters depicting the life story of Li Chonghui has recently been found in a Tang Dynasty ... position of today's secretary-general of an administrative body ...

Among those displays, a Tang Dynasty (618-907 ... highlights of this exhibition is the "Liaoren Stele." "Liaoren" is a general term used in ancient China to refer to the southern ethnic minority ...

This period was known as the Shang dynasty. King Tang: I am King Tang and I rule over this land. Narrator: The Shang dynasty was located near the Yellow River. The river made the land good for ...