Tangshan, a city in North China's Hebei Province, is conveniently located just over an hour's train journey from Beijing. For ...
Synopsis: A few years after the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, the Tubo army attacked the southwest. Gao Shi, who was ...
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.
With the rhythmic beat of drums echoing through the air, the city gates slowly open. The streets, flanked by shops, buzz with ...
in the Forbidden City almost every year during the Qing Dynasty. Chonghua Palace was located in a compound north of the six Western Palaces. Tea parties were first described in the Tang Dynasty.
Xi'an, also known as Chang'an in ancient times, has a history stretching back over 3,100 years. Boasting world-famous sites ...
Tired of seeing the same old historical landmarks in the Xian travel guides on the web? I sure am! If you/re like me, temples ...
The Tang Dynasty had disintegrated in fierce armed conflicts and China had once again entered ... In A.D. 960, Zhao Kuangyin, commander of the Later Zhou's imperial army, suddenly launched a mutiny at ...
One was Tang dynasty China, an empire stretching from ... and multiethnic groups lived side by side in a city of a million—a population unmatched by a Western city until London in the early ...
When I was invited to talk about the civil service exams and Tang Dynasty poetry to a class of seventh graders ... The students and I read them aloud and explore certain tropes: the way the poets used ...
designed to foster a love for Tang dynasty poetry. The Tang dynasty (618–907) is known as the golden age of Chinese literature. Its poems typically have eight lines of five or seven syllables ...