An American man who devoted 15 years of his life to studying martial arts and Taoism on China's sacred Wudang Mountain ... “As I followed my teacher to study Taoism texts, I found that martial ...

His crew includes Muzi, a Taoist monk and sailmaker, who guides the ship using divinations from the “I Ching”, an ancient Chinese text. Photograph: Getty Images When the author read “Moby ...

His crew includes Muzi, a Taoist monk and sailmaker, who guides the ship using divinations from the “I Ching”, an ancient Chinese text. Photograph: Getty Images When the author read “Moby ...

Vladislav Zubok’s monumental account is not just history, but a reassessment of a stand-off that still shapes geopolitics today ...

Spiders, parchment, bone and complex math were among the methods ancient cultures used. What drives this need? Who are the soothsayers in our midst today?

World Heritage Day, observed annually on April 18, underscores the global importance of safeguarding cultural and natural heritage. This year’s theme, ‘Heritage under Threat from Disasters and ...

I had minor surgery last week to remove a lipoma, which had quietly made a home for itself on my right shoulder several years ago. Embedded just beneath the skin like one half of a ping pong ball ...

The 700-year-old scroll by renowned calligrapher Rao Jie fetched over $32 million after a heated bidding battle at Sotheby’s.

Under the ancient city walls of Tianxin Pavilion in Changsha, Hunan province, 26-year-old Ghanaian student Ako Nai Emmanuella Daniella bent down to touch weathered bricks engraved with Chinese ...