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“Powerful.” “Mysterious.” “Bloody.” Those are the words that tend to come to mind when Chinese are asked about the Shang — an ancient dynasty that ruled China’s Central Plains for over 500 years until ...

With the news that dinosaur fossils were found in Hong Kong, here is how China's oracle bones changed our understanding of ...

Each tiny pile represented a shot in the dark: the remains of an exploratory dig for signs of China’s oldest archaeologically attested dynasty. Beneath our feet lies Yinxu, the last capital of the ...

Sanxingdui bronze head, late Shang Dynasty (c. 16th century-11th century BC), loaned from the Sichuan provincial institute of ...

The earliest extant examples of Chinese writing are the inscriptions that appear on so-called oracle bones (animal bones and turtle shells) and on bronze vessels, the oldest of which date back to the ...

As a Chinese girl in Virginia in the US, Shang didn’t have many people in her school who looked like her. “I was the only Asian kid in my school as far as I could tell.” And she didn’t ...