Paper's story spans millennia. Cai Lun in China invented it. Papyrus and parchment are different. Paper mills arose in Spain. Gutenberg's press boosted paper use. Handmade paper lasted long.

As Xuan paper finds renewed vitality in contemporary society, a new generation of cultural custodians is rising to safeguard its legacy. Thirty-year-old Cao Ping, a docent at the Xuan paper-themed ...

Long before the industrial age, four Chinese inventions reshaped the world’s future. Papermaking, gunpowder, printing, and ...

Meet Li Wanzhen — a fifth-generation guardian of Foshan's iconic lion heads and a national inheritor of China's intangible cultural heritage.

The Xiangfen county public security bureau in North China’s Shanxi Province, on Tuesday discovered information circulating online about “someone selling ancient city wall bricks from the Ming ...

For a time one of China’s biggest LGBT -rights organisations, based in the capital, was known as the “Beijing tongzhi Centre” (it closed in 2023 under political pressure).

The organizers anticipated that the elderly Bai might not be able to attend the panel, but were surprised when the reason why wasn’t what they had expected: Bai had traveled with his daughter, fellow ...

STORY: You are looking at some of the oldest ice ever recovered from Antarctica.:: Cambridge, EnglandThis week, these cylinder ice samples arrived in the UK for climate analysis, more than a ...

A four-day test in the Alaska wilderness shows how far the U.S. military and American drone companies lag behind China in the technology.

Western Xia imperial burial site recognised for history of cultural fusion is China’s 60th landmark to earn UN cultural agency designation.