A giant float with fang-baring toy monsters was trundling through Manhattan for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, as crowds of onlookers whipped out their phones to capture the looming 16-foot ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

Yang Hexiang, director of the Yunnan Provincial Library, introduces the digital ancient books the institute released on Dec 30. [Photo by Wang Ru/China Daily] After centuries spent quietly on library ...

The historian Adam Tooze discusses Davos, China and the fading of an old world order. This is an edited transcript of “The ...

Did you know this place has nearly 9,000 rooms… and for over 500 years, almost no one could enter? From the sky, Beijing’s Forbidden City looks endless. Golden roofs. Crimson walls. Perfect symmetry ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

"Researchers have argued for decades that while hominins in Africa and western Europe demonstrated significant technological advances, those in East Asia relied on simpler and more conservative ...

From the mid-19th century, the ailing Qing Dynasty began facing a deep social crisis due to the impact of the dominant ...

The existential question of which countries are the oldest has long intrigued historians, and for good reason. However, defining what makes a country "old" is challenging, as it depends on historical ...

Semantic Extension, Idioms and Proverbs, Cultural Semantics, Cognitive Semantics Share and Cite: Di, J.Y. (2026) A Semantic Analysis of “Peach” in Chinese and Japanese. Open Access Library Journal, 13 ...

Stories of giants appear in ancient texts across cultures, from biblical accounts to Greek mythology. Long dismissed as legend, these stories gained renewed attention after a giant footprint was ...