World’s Earliest Tie-Dye Found in a Silk Road Tomb
Archaeologists in Qinghai confirmed the world’s earliest tie-dye fabric, carbon-dated to before 750 AD and pulled from a Tang-era tomb on the Tibetan Plateau.
June 5, 2026
Donghua University: From Catwalks to Spacesuits
Donghua University is one of those Chinese schools that foreign applicants keep overlooking, and that is a missed opportunity. The name sounds modest. The reputation is not. This is the country’s leading textile and fashion university, sitting right in Shanghai, and its labs even helped engineer the fabric for China’s astronaut spacesuits. So if you…
Chaka Salt Lake: How China’s Sky Mirror Works
Chaka Salt Lake might be the most surreal place you can stand in China. Picture a vast white salt flat, so still and wet that the whole sky lands on the ground. Locals call it the “Mirror of the Sky,” and for once the nickname undersells the view. On a calm, sunny day the horizon…
