How China formed: an ancient civilization that keeps on learning

British envoy failed to trade with the Qing Emperor

Qing Empire: the most successful conquering dynasty

Ming treasure voyages: what the Yongle Emperor desired?

Ethnic discrimination: Why Mongol Yuan’s reign was so short

The Travels of Marco Polo: China in European's imagination

Maritime Silk Road: continuous prosperity of Quanzhou

One country, two systems: how nomads ruled China

Chanyuan Treaty: too high a price for peace?

An Lushan Rebellion: Hu people rejected the Tang Dynasty

Tang Dynasty: how to govern people equally

Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty and his world expo

Ethnicities integrated into one another: Han and the Hu

Eliminating the Xiongnu: good or bad for the Han Dynasty?

Princesses married for peace: miserable lives or diplomatic envoys?

Zhang Qian -- founder of the Silk Road

Destruction of Qin: lose hearts, lose power

Qin Dynasty: victory of reform and pragmatism

Wearing nomadic clothing and shooting arrows from horse

A book shows how ancient Chinese imagined unknown world