UB history professor Yan Liu probes the history of Chinese medicine through its medicinal substances to tell a previously unwritten story of the value poison acquired in Chinese medicine and culture.

On today's Planet Money, historian Kenneth Pomeranz explains why China's lower Yagtze River Valley was perhaps the best place on the planet to be poor, right up until the start of the Industrial ...

The presidential address of 1995, constituting an examination of the favorite or distinctive food-stuffs and beverages of early medieval China as revealed in texts practical and literary from that ...

Medieval Chinese Coin Found in England Suggests a Vast Medieval Trade Route A recent discovery dating to the 11th century offers hints of a world that was more ...

This article examines a Buddhist vinaya (or, monastic code) precept against the use of silk; it includes the broader contexts of Chinese Buddhist silk culture and Chinese applications of Indian ...

Scientists suggest an ancient emblem of the city may have arrived in northern Italy after a long journey across the medieval ...