For many years, music scholars in China and Japan tried unsuccessfully to decipher ancient musical notations that looked a bit like Chinese characters. They found the key to the puzzle in the city of ...

A literary work held as the foundation of Chinese poetry and Confucian education was recently recovered from a Chinese tomb. The discovery of China's first-ever complete version of the "Book of Songs" ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several famous ...