From a Chinese star’s best actress win at Venice to the rise of Yun-Gui fusion cuisine, here are seven stories from SCMP’s ...

As the Hungry Ghost Festival nears, we look at 'yao jing gui guai' in Chinese culture and their habit of appearing as beautiful women.

What did an ancient Chinese emperor from 1,500 years ago look like? A team of researchers reconstructed the face of Chinese Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou using DNA extracted from his remains. The study ...

Humans have been stargazing for thousands—possibly hundreds of thousands of years. Ancient people around the globe looked to the heavens for physical and spiritual guidance. Dozens and dozens of ...

From long-running Chinese RPG series to newly released worldwide successes, these games prove that China is a rich setting ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the assistance of China's Zhurong rover, scientists have gathered fresh evidence that Mars was home to an ocean billions of years ago - a far cry from the dry and desolate ...

In his bookThe Origin and Goal of History, German philosopher Karl Jaspers introduced the concept of the “Axial Age”, which has gained widespread recognition in global academia. Jaspers argued that ...

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For centuries, the Yangtze porpoise was a common sight on the river it is named after. Now, the freshwater mammal is critically endangered, rarely sighted, and only found in a tiny proportion of the ...