CHINA has many good reasons not to build the $5.2 billion Xiaonanhai dam on the Yangzi river in Chongqing. The site, on a gentle slope that moves water along only slowly, is not ideal for generating ...

LONDON – Abercrombie & Kent will launch The Yangzi Explorer – the only internationally managed five-star cruise ship to sail on the Yangzi River – on July 6. The vessel accommodates 124 passengers.

When the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston announced it was displaying a landscape by the Chinese master Wang Hui (1632-1717) in an “immersive installation” with “soundscapes of water, birds and fishermen,” ...

Tracking upstream on the mighty Yangzi, Richard Cooke observes the confluence of old and new. China Eastern flies to Yichang and Chongqing – the arrival and departure points for river cruises on the ...

FOR TWO thousand years the fishermen of China’s great rivers have served the literati as symbols of hardships patiently endured. One of the country’s best-known poems ponders an old man fishing alone ...

New research shows Venice’s bronze Lion of St Mark was cast in Tang-era China, revealing a Silk Road link behind the city’s sacred symbol.

There are not nine million bicycles in Beijing, as Katie Melua sings. There can't be because there isn't room for them among the nine million cars clogging the roads. 'It takes four hours to drive ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article investigates the organization of copper mining and metallurgy in the Zhongtiao Mountains and along the middle and lower reaches ...

Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built. By Duncan Clark. Ecco; 287 pages; $27.99 and £18.99. NOT since John Rockefeller has a businessman defined a country’s transformation as well as Jack Ma does.

31 Oct – Following Lawrence Ng's announcement yesterday that he and wife Shi Yangzi will be getting a divorce, the latter admitted that the age gap between her and the actor played a big part in the ...