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Learn more about the Yangtze finless porpoise and how researchers used ancient poems to map out it's habitat decline.
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In a creative fusion of science and literature, researchers trace the past range and decline of a rare Chinese porpoise ...
Qing China turns global imports into culture, gold, and influence, making it the best pick in Civilization 7 for an Economic ...
Analyzing ancient Chinese poetry allowed researchers to understand where humans went wrong in protecting the now critically ...
It's "like being thrust into a cross between the movie Inception and a game of snakes and ladders," according to one visitor.
Researchers have unearthed the surveillance records of Taiwan’s former dictatorship. But the revelations inside could tear ...
Published today in Current Biology, a new study shows that the Yangtze finless porpoise has lost over 65% of its historic ...
In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains:“Heaven has gone blind!” Thousands of starving farmers, ...
Most of these buildings have brick walls and tiled roofs in the traditional reddish-brown color, but in the middle is one incongruous property with bright white walls and a black tiled roof: Yipu ...
The topography, rendered primarily in green and light brown, evokes the aesthetic of qinglyu shanshui — the "blue-and-green ...
he was told it was a piece from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). But something about its design -- the swirling motifs, the brushwork -- made him suspicious that it might be older. "The style ...
Legend has it that in the Ming Dynasty, this area housed barrel-makers employed by Shen Wansan, Jiangnan's richest merchant.