Opening paragraphs -- Wheelwrights (lunren) -- Chariot-basket makers (yuren) -- Pole makers (zhouren) -- Metal workers (gong jin zhi gong) -- Forging founders (zhushi ...

Long before modern observatories and spacecraft, court scribes in ancient China were quietly building one of humanity’s first datasets on the changing sky. Their terse notes on sudden daylight ...

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out in early Chinese farming settlements since the Neolithic Period. Now, a ...