For 1.3 billion viewers, CCTV's recent historical soap operas have become China's new political awareness barometer. The trend began with Yong Zheng, a series about the Manchu emperor who ...

The empire of Qin set the pattern of a unified multi－national country, but it fell apart very soon because it had wantonly engaged in military ventures and launched an immense construction project.

Sima Qian was born and grew up in Longmen, near present-day Hancheng, Shaanxi. He was raised in a family of astrologers. His father, Sima Tan, served as the Prefect of the Grand Scribes of Emperor Wu ...

In 202 BC, Liu Bang (256 BC-195 BC) defeated Xiang Yu (232 BC-202 BC) and set up the Western Han imperial court (206 BC-AD 24), founding its capital at Chang'an, with magnificent city walls and ...