Breard's interest in Chinese scientific history was ignited by Chinese Mathematics: A Concise History, a book that chronicles ...

Kashmir, now known largely for its beauty, was once known for its wisdom and as a centre of knowledge. From the time of ...

In 20th-century biochemistry history of China, Szu-Chih Liu (刘思职, 1904—1983)(Fig. 1) acted as a central bridge in both academic genealogy and knowledge indigenization. Liu inherited the methodology ...

Hanging coffins and cliff burials were once widespread across parts of East and Southeast Asia, shaped by beliefs around ...

History is woven from stories, and vivid individuals are the protagonists of these tales. Alongside the event "Hangzhou, a ...

Ma is one of mainland China's most common surnames and is interestingly even prevalent among Chinese Muslims. We look at its ...

These universal truths form the shared foundation upon which a great deal of rigorous and robust merit-based inquiry is ...

From the Ozempic story to books on power, money and the new world order — plus fiction by Julian Barnes, Amitav Ghosh and ...

The killing of Anjel Chakma in Dehradun is not merely a story of one violent night. It is a mirror held up to a society that has long normalised racial prejudice against its own people.

Among the highlights is a batch of digitized books donated by the Harvard-Yenching Library to the National Library of China ...

Space travel didn’t begin with rockets — it began with stargazing. From Ptolemaic astronomy to early Chinese rocketry, ...

A new study maps locations of Chinese tombs, revealing over 4,000 years of power and wealth in early human societies.