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People this famous would never let you anywhere near their houses when they were alive, but now you can walk right inside!
The Seattle Chinese Garden has plans to finish building its central garden, with hopes of becoming a standout destination for ...
Allerton Park & Retreat is one of my favorite hidden gems in the Champaign-Urbana area — located in Monticello, a 40 minute drive away (though it feels much shorter) — but I don’t get out ...
Why did Ernest Henry Wilson, a famous plant hunter, call China "the mother of world gardens"? China News Service interviewed Yin Kaipu, author of Tracing One Hundred Years of Changes: Illustrating the ...
A show at the V&A Dundee traces the many things the garden has been: a paradise; a replica of the world; a sanctuary. What would the ideal one look like today?
Art and literature hint at past people’s psyches. Now computers can identify patterns in those cognitive fossils, but human expertise remains crucial.
How did ancient Chinese commanders win wars without fighting? In this episode, Kings and Generals explores the brilliant tactics and cunning stratagems of the Three Kingdoms Period, drawn from ...
Team finds China’s Buddhist and Taoist temples host higher concentration of old trees – some dating back 1,000 years – than anywhere else.
Neolithic society in eastern China tracing descent through female line lasted 250 years and at least 10 generations, Chinese-led team finds.
Scientists studied more than 700 ancient Chinese poems that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to determine its population history, according to a new study.
Students at the Yuelu Academy of Hunan University in China embarked on a project to recreate a rice dish from an ancient recipe, yielding an unusual and surprisingly healthy food result.