IN January 1993 archaeol-ogists discovered a largequantity of porcelainwareforged in the official kilns of theMing court during the early15th century.The wares
LIKE other ancient civilizations of the world,China hasmany rich tales of mythology.these early accounts are thehuman discernment of the manymysteries that surr
THE Kingdom of Shu exist-ed about 3,000 years ago inwest-central Sichuan,but itdisappeared into the mist of legenduntil only a decade or so ago,whenarchaeologic
CAO XUEQIN,one of thegreatest novelists in China’shistory,lived in the middleof the 18th century at the heightof the Qing Dynasty.He spent10 years writing his