At a hot spring resort in Harbin, guests can now soak in giant pools designed to look like steaming hot pots, complete with chillies, vegetables and herbal infusions
A single cloisonné masterpiece passes through multiple master craftsmen, repeated firings and months of painstaking work before it earns its famous jewel-like finish
The smuggling of silkworms from China to Byzantium secretly broke a centuries-old Chinese monopoly over one of the ancient world’s most valuable luxuries