Thanks to the popular 2022 Chinese drama A Dream of Splendor, Song dynasty tea culture has seen new light; one episode that ...

In the Song Dynasty, Shen Kuo described the floating compass, suspended in water, a technique which minimized the effect of motion on the instrument. This enabled the compass to be used for sea ...

NOVA: We can't end our discussion of innovations of the Song Dynasty without mentioning the Rainbow Bridge that the team of NOVA experts reconstructed in "China Bridge." ...

On the western side of the Mausoleum of Cao Cao, a prominent warlord of the late Eastern Han dynasty (25-220), Chinese archaeologists have discovered ruins dating from the Song Dynasty (960-1279 ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. the excellent new Belknap history of imperial China backward: first the volume dealing with the (1644 ...

The No 2 shipwreck, which dates to no later than the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), remains mostly buried, and only parts of it have been exposed. And the third one, ...