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SEOUL, South Korea -- They came from all over the world, poles in hand, and feet ready to inch more than half a mile across a high wire strung over the Han River in a spine-tingling battle of balance, speed and high anxiety.As part of its annual city festival, the South Korean capital staged Thursday what was billed as the world's first high-wire championship, drawing 18 contestants from nine countries for three days of supreme feats of concentration.Each acrobat must navigate the 1.2-inch-thick wire that spans the river, with the top prize of $15,000 going to the person crossing it...

Muslims, Han Chinese clash in north China - group 04 Sep 2007 04:25:00 GMT Source: Reuters Alert Me | Print | Email this article | RSS [-] Text [+] BEIJING, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Thousands of Han Chinese and members of the Muslim Hui ethnic minority group clashed over a dispute in north China, resulting in one death, a Hong Kong human rights group said on Tuesday. Relations between the Han, who make up more than 90 percent of China's 1.3 billion population, and the 10-million-strong Hui Muslims have long been sensitive. Huis complain about offences to their religion and...

Roman-style column bolsters Han Dynasty tomb Archeologists excavate near a Roman-style column in a newly found Han Dynasty tomb (202 BC - 220 AD) in Xiao County, east China's Anhui Province, April 3, 2007. (newsphoto) Nearby villagers look on at the stone entrance of a newly found Han Dynasty tomb (202 BC - 220 AD) in Xiao County, east China's Anhui Province, April 3, 2007. (newsphoto) An archeologists cleans carved stones in a newly found Han Dynasty tomb (202 BC - 220 AD) in Xiao County, east China's Anhui Province, April 3, 2007. (newsphoto)

Underground passages reveal power struggle in ancient Han capital Chinese archaeologists said underground passages in the ruins of an ancient Chinese capital near Xi'an might have been dug during complex power struggles in the Han Dynasty 2,200 years ago. "The underground passages are the first ever discovered in the ruins of an ancient Chinese capital," said Liu Qingzhu, a researcher with the Chinese Institute of Archaeology in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). "The tunnels were mostly discovered under the palaces where the royal women lived, including the emperor's mother, the empress and the emperor's concubines," Liu said. Historical...

Valuable Han Dynasty tomb discovered A large scale Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - 25 AD) tomb was discovered at Fengpengling in Wangcheng County in Hunan Province. Piles of yellow cypress wood were found between the coffin and tomb wall, evidence of a typical Western Han Dynasty burial style reserved for a king during that period. Experts who excavated the Mawangdui Han Dynasty Tomb in Changsha said that after examining the tomb at Fengpengling they believe the status and rank of the buried person in the tomb and the scale of burial have exceeded that of Mawangdui, another famous tomb...

(Note: This is a PAID subscription. Please do not copy and paste the full contents from The Horses Mouth to FR)   A Chinese general has elevated the Taiwan issue to one of national strategic survival by claiming that any move to form an independent nation dominated by Han nationals would undermine the Mainland's stability. Maj. Gen. Peng Guangqian from the Academy of Military Sciences said that Taiwan is a "strategic issue bearing on the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation." Peng accused Taiwanese officials and other forces of pressing for independence, which will "eventually lead to the disintegration of China."...

Inner Mongolia Yields New Discoveries More than 80 leading archeological experts are participating in an international conference in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, to exchange the latest information on Hongshan, a prehistoric relics site. Relics excavated at the Hongshan ("Red Mountain") site originated around 5000 BC to 6500 BC. Now a part of Chifeng City, the site was discovered in 1935. Some of the relics found at Hongshan have led archeologists to conclude that the heads of Chinese dragons may have been inspired by boars in addition to horses and cattle. Primitive people who struggled to survive by fishing and...

On Old Silk Road, Condos, Mosques and Ethnic Tensions URUMQI, China, March 12 — On a big public square dominated by this city's huge gold-domed theater, taxis honk their way through slushy, chaotic streets, stopping to take on passengers laden with bundles of walnuts, almonds, dates and dried plums purchased at open stalls.Others disembark to pray at one of a score of mosques that dot the inner city, walking past vendors' tables displaying DVD's with Arabic titles about the Persian Gulf war of 1991.The sidewalk diners at a nearby restaurant, biting away at heavily spiced skewers of lamb kebab and...

New Han wooden strips discovered in Inner Mongolia www.chinaview.cn 2003-12-07 21:54:30 HOHHOT, Dec. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- New historical records from Xin (8-23 A.D.), a short-lived regime at the end of the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-24), were discovered on wooden strips from Han at Juyan, in Ejin Banner of North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The discovery was made after nearly one year's research by archaeologists with the state and local archaeological institutions on more than 500 wooden strips excavated from 1999 to2002. "From these wooden strips, we found abundant historical recordson Xin, the historical materials of which had been...

Christian Designs Found in Tomb Stones of Eastern Han Dynasty [2002-08-02] Studies show that as early as 86 A.D., or the third year under the reign of "Yuanhe" of Eastern Han, Dynasty Christianity entered into China, 550 years earlier than the world accepted time. When studying a batch of stone carvings of Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 A.D.) stored and exhibited in the Museum of Xuzhou Han Stone Carvings, Christian theology professor Wang Weifan was greatly surprised by some stone engravings demonstrating the Bible stories and designs of early Christian times. Further studies showed that some of these engravings were made...