High on the windswept Tibetan Plateau, at an altitude of more than 14,000 feet (4.27 km), a stone inscription has sparked a ...

China’s showcased sixth-generation “White Emperor” (Baidi) space fighter concept, with its claimed hypersonic, near-space, ...

Emperor Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty was the first emperor of ancient China and ruled from 221 B.C. to 210 B.C. He's most ...

What he said to me was: you are right. And then he added: Xi Jinping is much more than a president of China – he sees himself as an emperor of China. With even greater powers than Mao Zedong ever had.

Tsung-Cheng, emperor of China, ascended the throne in 1627. The country was torn with dissension. Revolution broke out in the north and west. Two rebel leaders, Li Tse Cheng and Shang Ko Ki ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

(Zheng He, sponsored by emperor Yongle, was China's greatest naval explorer.) Within Chinese imperial tradition, the emperor was considered the only official inhabitant of the Forbidden City ...

What he said to me was: you are right. And then he added: Xi Jinping is much more than a president of China – he sees himself as an emperor of China. With even greater powers than Mao Zedong ...

In the third century BC, China was a land fractured by war - a patchwork of rival kingdoms struggling for dominance. Out of this chaos rose a single, extraordinary figure who would reshape the course ...