Access to this vast complex of grand palaces, abundant gardens, and sacred pavilions was off limits to most of imperial China's people, who could only imagine the grandeur beyond the gates.

In 214 B.C., when the Lingqu Canal was built and began to operate, Emperor Qin unified South of the Five Ridges and set up Nanhai, Guilin and Xiangjun prefectures. Since the Qin Dynasty, the Lingqu ...

Han Gou was one of China's earliest known canals and was the precursor to the Grand Canal network. By the time Qin, who lived in the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), wrote the poem, the Grand Canal, ...

In 225 BCE, the Qin army in China diverted the Yellow River, flooding Daliang and killing 100,000 people; in 1258, the Mongols broke the levees of a canal to flood the Abbasid army’s camp, ... Syria ...

China hasn’t built a canal of this magnitude since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949. Engineers face extraordinary challenges as they reshape natural rivers to make way for ...

Rescue workers are using rubber dinghies to evacuate people and deliver food and water after floodwaters overwhelmed towns in southern China’s Guangdong province ...

Qin Shi Huang famously sent alchemists east to Japan seeking immortality. Now, a newly discovered inscription suggests he ...

Listen to this article As governments around the world confront the urgency of climate change, carbon markets have emerged as a key instrument for reducing emissions. China’s national carbon market, ...

A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been erected to control the flow of people, perhaps for tax reasons ...

China-backed projects on the Mekong River may complicate ties with Vietnam, analysts warn, as Hanoi navigates the delicate balance of cooperation with Beijing while maintaining a strategic ...