The Chinese reformer and scholar Wang T'ao (1828-1897) was a pioneer of modern journalism in China and one of the earliest advocates of economic and political modernization. On Nov. 10, 1828, Wang T'ao was born in Kiangsu Province, near the city of...

Almost twenty years ago, near the village of Ma-wang-tui in Hunan province, archaeologists began to excavate the tomb of the son of the Prime Minister of Changsha, who lived in the early years of the former Han dynasty. In terms of the Western...

AGING GRACEFULLY WAS fine for Mom. But 61-year-old C.J. (Caryn Jane) Golden was determined to age defiantly. "My mom always accepted the fact that she was getting older, but she wasn't a role model on the defiant, active side," Golden says. "As I started...

Half a century after Mao Zedong's "Great Leap Forward" brought irrigation to the arid grasslands in this remote corner of northwest China, the government is giving up on its attempt to make a breadbasket out of what has increasingly become a stretch of scrub and...