Yang Zhenning is one of the most famous Chinese scientists. He is a theoretical physicist whose research with Tsung-Dao Lee, a Chinese-American physicist, disproved the law of conservation of parity, concerning the interactions of fundamental nuclear particles. The pair shared the 1957 Nobel Prize i...

Zheng He, a Chinese Muslim eunuch that lived during the early Ming dynasty, is one of the greatest explorers in the history of mankind. Funded by the Ming emperor, he led seven epic voyages between 1405 and 1433 west from China across the Indian Ocean to the east coast of Africa and deep into the Pe...

FromRed Sorghum,Raise the Red Lantern,Hero, toHouse of Flying daggers, Zhang Yimou, China’s most famous film director, has won international acclaim every step of the way. Some of his most recurrent themes are associated with sexual repression, political oppression, and the...

The 9th Zhejiang Suichang Tang Xianzu Cultural Festival was held in Suichang county, Lishui, on April 13 to celebrate the enduring influence of Tang Xianzu, an esteemed Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) playwright.The festival featured a range of events, including a spectacular performance of Tang's mast...

Wang was a leading critic of the orthodox Neo–Confucianism espoused by Zhu Xi (1130–1200). He is perhaps best known for his doctrine of the "unity of knowing and acting," which can be interpreted as a denial of the possibility of weakness of will.Ningbo has long been committed to t...

Lǐ Qīngzhào李清照 (1084 – c.1155) is one of the best-known female writers in Chinese history. At a time when women commonly burned their poemsrather than have them read in public, Li used hers to publicly criticize the government and male peers. She was a defiant visionary who turned...