According to Chinese tradition, Chinese civilization is 5,000 years old, though the ancient China of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou ...

The following was written of the reign of Emperor Zhou (the last emperor of the Shang Dynasty, enthroned 1154 B.C. – 1122 B.C.): “With a pool of wine and a forest of hanging meats, men and ...

Nicolas Chow, chairman of Sotheby's Asia and worldwide head of Asian art, writes in his preface for Liu's collection of ...

And all this? Well, it’ll be history. We follow Li, a farmer boy, and his father as they deliver some ox bones to the Shang Emperor's palace. These oracle bones are used to foretell the future.

Narrator: The Shang military was a powerful highly organised machine. Most of the warriors were foot soldiers armed with bronze weapons such as daggers, spears and ji, a long stick with a bronze ...