A Sino-British project is examining the history of China’s first age of modern globalisation, enabling China and Britain to rediscover their...
China’s rich history of scientific and technical contributions to human culture stretches back to antiquity, as Christopher Cullen has been...
Food history breaks down our understanding of national borders: Barak Kushner is examining how interactions between China and Japan have shaped...
Treasured and venerated for thousands of years, jade holds a special place in the history and culture of the Chinese Empire.
This year is the 30th anniversary of China’s policy of ‘reform and open up’. What has happened to China’s strategic industries and how competitive...
Research led by the Department of Pharmacology is discovering the drugs of tomorrow from traditional Chinese medicine.
Two recently funded grants will build and strengthen research collaborations with Chinese academics.
A rare Tibetan manuscript - a treasure that had remained hidden for centuries - set in motion a journey by Hildegard Diemberger that was to bring...
Cambridge researchers have analysed millions of patterns of potential moves to model the uncertainty of play in the ancient game of Go.
Bamboo – one of China’s most precious commodities – is showing great promise as the material of choice for building wind turbines.
The explosion of the broadband internet is allowing anthropologists to carry out research into virtual, as well as real communities. Xiaoxiao Yan...
![Bamboo strips of the Suan shu shu, "Writings on Reckoning"](https://www.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.cam.ac.uk/files/styles/content-580x288/public/news/research/news/bamboo-strips-credit-professor-christopher-cullen.jpg?itok=cB3lU0Ar "Bamboo strips of the Suan shu shu, "Writings on Reckoning", Credit: Professor Christopher Cullen")
