Seeking harmony within diversity

An important cave at the Longmen Grottoes repoens

Decoding the esoteric script of the Tangut Empire's royal family

A scholar visits the world of Northern Wei female patrons

The common narrative of Chinese dynastic history is a story of the “sons of heaven” (tianzi 天子): great men (and one woman, Wu Zetian) who enforced the Mandate of Heaven until they lost it and were ove