Because of his tyranny and excessive tax collections the Qin Dynasty ended soon after his death. Portrait of Emperor Qinshihuang As the first huge ancient mausoleum in China, with a river in front ...

[Photo provided to China Daily] Researchers ... of the early Western Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th century-771 BC), offering important historical insights into the pre-Qin era. In 2008, Tsinghua ...

The fourth national cultural relics census has uncovered three ancient sites from the Pre-Qin period (Prior to 221BC) and Han ...

Exhibitions in Shanghai and Suzhou, powered by the cutting-edge technologies, lead people to wander the streets in the Qin ...

DEEP in the ancient burial grounds of China’s first emperor ... such as [the] commanding system in the Qin dynasty," said Xiuzhen Janice Li, an archaeologist from the University of Oxford.

This trend continued through the Western Han dynasty (206BC – AD24). The Qin was China’s first imperial dynasty, with its capital at Xianyang in what is now the northwestern province of Shaanxi.

The Chinese Qin Emperor's Terracotta Army ... chamber’s interior comes from yet another ancient historical document, a text written by the Han dynasty chronicler Sima Qian, who described ...

Including ruins revealing the artistry of ancient Chinese porcelain and cultural exchanges along the Silk Road, a total of 30 ...

Qin Gang is one of the youngest appointees to the post of foreign minister in China's history The lengthy absence from public view of China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang has sparked furious online ...