In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains:“Heaven has gone blind!” ...

Often overshadowed by its neighbour Yogyakarta, Surakarta – commonly known as Solo – is a treasure trove of Javanese culture ...

Most of these buildings have brick walls and tiled roofs in the traditional reddish-brown color, but in the middle is one incongruous property with bright white walls and a black tiled roof: Yipu ...

As shophouses underwent countless changes over the years, they served as a sort of oversized painter’s canvas that recorded ...

Anthropic has pushed its Claude AI chatbot into the library with a new Research feature reminiscent of the Deep Research ...

During the Qing Dynasty, restaurants were classed by names ... opened restaurants imitating foods from the imperial kitchen. The Beijing People’s Government has, since 1949, encouraged the ...

At the restaurant, chef Tian Yong prepares imperial Manchu cuisine rooted in the Qing dynasty’s (1644 to 1912 ... where a small kitchen uses uni, tobiko, and soy effortlessly in a buzzy dining ...

China has the world’s largest chemical industry, accounting for nearly half of global production, the vast majority of it ...

Some homes date to the 1600s; others are far more recent. Ancient trees, modern conservation techniques, and acres of flowers ...

The second prompt comes from testing Gemini's recent Deep Research upgrade, with an eye toward the kitchen ... complete with context from Qing dynasty China to Western adaptations and its place ...

Zhang Xiaodong, an inheritor of the kite-making technique, makes a kite in Weifang. Photo: Courtesy of Zhang Xiaodong Zhang ...