A fossil site in southwest China has just upended one of biology’s oldest timelines. Researchers working in Yunnan Province recovered more than 700 fossil specimens that push the origin of complex animal life back by at least 4 million years — well before the event scientists had long treated as the starting gun for animal…
The Yungang Grottoes don’t look like a crossroads. From the outside, they’re a long sandstone cliff face in northern Shanxi, roughly 16 kilometers west of a mid-sized Chinese city called Datong. But step inside Cave 12 — the one locals call the “Music Cave” — and something unexpected happens. You’re looking at a Persian harp….
Anhui University holds a credential most international students have never heard of — and it might just change how you think about learning Chinese in China. In 2000, China’s Overseas Chinese Affairs Office under the State Council officially designated Anhui University (AHU) as a Teaching Base for Chinese Language and Culture (Stony Brook University Study…
