If you’re familiar with 19th-century ceramics, you probably know about ironstone. It was first made by English potter Miles Mason, who sold Chinese export porcelain and decided to make his own ...

Massive mirror onstage sheds new light on an old favorite, Chen Nan reports.

A visitor feels the glaze of a porcelain shard that has a history of about 580 years. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] This ...

The McKinley Tariff of 1890 raised import duties to nearly 50% on average, up from around 38% previously. As the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, McKinley argued that high tariffs were ...

Students of realism, the dominant school of thought in international politics, consider the Melian Dialogue a good starting ...

A violin handcrafted in 1714 by Antonio Stradivari, the famous Italian luthier, has been sold for $11.25 million by Boston’s ...

Russia has supported secessionist regimes and meddled in the affairs of Syria and African countries, China has militarized ...

Bodh Gaya (or Buddha Gaya as it is called in Sri Lanka), is the place where the Buddha attained Enlightenment. It was a major ...