The Han are the majority people among China's fifty-six state-recognized nationalities, and comprise the people usually known worldwide as the Chinese. They are the most numerous of the world's nationalities, approaching 1.2 billion in...

Han Chinese are China’s majority ethnic group, consisting of 92 per cent of the mainland’s population. Regarded as descendants of the inhabitants of the Yellow River basin, they are traced to the earliest years of any identifiable Chinese...

Han may refer to: if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } "Han" in China Chinese (漢), an abbreviation or adjectival modifier for things Chinese. Han Chinese (漢族 Hanzu, 漢人 Hanren), the...

They came from all over the world, poles in hand, and feet ready to inch more than half a mile across a high wire strung over the Han River in a spine-tingling battle of balance, speed and high anxiety.As part of its annual city festival,...

NASCAR on Monday tried to figure out why Kyle Busch's HANS device cracked during a spectacular crash at Talladega Superspeedway.The frustrated driver, meanwhile, was trying to make sense of two hard wrecks that ruined his weekend.Busch wrecked in Saturday's Busch Series event, when he was...

There are currents of influence on the contemporary art scene so pervasive that, in retrospect, they seem to define an entire era. For a good many artists and critics who came of age in the heyday of the Abstract Expressionist movement in the 1940's and...

The Flemish painter Hans Memling (circa 1435-1494) is primarily remembered today for his meticulously executed paintings of religious subjects in the style of Rogier van der Weyden, with whom he is thought to have studied. Memling is also known to have excelled as a portrait...