Chinese Characters is a new series of essays ... That woman was Wu Zetian (624-705) of the Tang dynasty. And to get there, she left behind a trail of bodies that even Cersei Lannister might ...

Though she changed the Li house's Tang Dynasty into the Wu's Zhou Dynasty ... gems of the ancient Chinese art of stone carving. Most of these stone pieces line the sides of the spirit path ...

It's a sure sign of middle age they say if, when you pick up the newspaper, you turn first to the obituaries. But middle-aged or not, most of us, I suspect, would love to know what people will ...

In this episode of Culture 360, Yuk Ching talks about the reasons of development of Tang Dynasty Chinese Chuanqi (a form of short story), and introduces one the stories, The Governor of Nanke .