The Historical Astronomy Division (HAD) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) has awarded its 2011 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize to Nathan Sivin for his landmark volume “Granting the Seasons: ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — A historian of Chinese society and politics will talk about Tiananmen at the University of Montana this Thursday. Dr. Rowena He's upcoming talk is called "The Betrayal of Loyalty: ...

The Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery have announced that James Cahill, former curator of Chinese art at the Freer and eminent scholar in many topics of Chinese and ...

Chinese historian Jiang Xueqin's 2024 lecture is going viral as he predicted that Donald Trump would return as US president and there would be war with Iran. The lecture was part of his "predictive ...

One of the keys to understanding present day China is grasping its past. Yale University historian Jonathan Spence helped many people to understand this vast field. Here's the reality of the world's ...

Nov. 19 (UPI) --A leading Korean War historian in China has had his online lectures suspended after he allegedly expressed an opinion about the conflict that contradicts official narratives, reports ...

As China’s power and influence continue to grow in Asia and beyond, many analysts look to Chinese history to understand how a strong China will behave and view the world in the future. Many of these ...

Installation view, ‘China at the Center’ at the Asian Art Museum, showing Matteo Ricci’s “A Complete Map of the Ten Thousand Countries of the World” (1602) in the background (photo by Noah Berger, all ...

People believe that cycles were invented in the 19th century in Europe. Historian Xu Quan Long disagrees. He says cycles were invented 2,500 years ago, and he built this fully functional tricycle to ...

As the Chinese Communist Party turns 100 this month, NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with historian Andy B. Liu about the mark it's made on the country. One hundred years ago this month, a small group of ...

News of a revised New Zealand history curriculum was welcomed by many, including me as an historian and someone who has worked closely with high schools and the education sector. In particular, this ...