NOVA: What influence did these printing innovations have on Chinese history? Yates: Well, that's a question that brings us into the political realm. One of the major social changes that took place ...

The discovery of a tomb in Central China's Hunan Province containing the bodies of a couple who lived during China's Northern Song Dynasty ... netizens took to social media to talk about the ...

The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies is an international society committed to the encouragement of the study of Chinese—as well as Jürchen, Khitan, Tangut, and Mongol—history, ...

Hangzhou, capital city of Zhejiang province, East China, was the political, economic and cultural center more than 800 years ago, when it served as the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127 ...

This Song dynasty (960-1279) trade vessel would not make it far, sinking to the bottom of the ocean near the coast of Taishan in Guangdong province, where it would remain untouched until 1987.

The day-to-day clothing worn by a young woman from the Song dynasty, around 800 years ago, has been digitally reconstructed by Chinese scientists using the latest technology. They discovered that ...

An art gallery in Paris has sought inspiration in ancient China’s Song dynasty to help it enforce social distancing, by providing hats with winged extensions for visitors. An art gallery in ...