Ancient China’s main rivers ran west to east, and Yang wanted to break this grip of geography. He needed a way to move rice from the fertile region around the Yangtze northwest to feed his court ...

Terraced rice paddies, masterpieces of ancient engineering, have existed in China, the Philippines, and elsewhere for as long as two millennia. You don't have to be an expert to know that the ...

Its domestication evolved in India and China, and subsequently spread ... does not address the emerging challenges. Rice talks about it as an ancient crop, and focuses on the changes it has ...

We were in Niding, a tiny hamlet cradled by the mountains of northern Yunnan, in the southwest of China, drinking yak ... forests and wide valleys where rice terraces seemed to ooze down the ...

[Photo provided by the artist and Yiwei Gallery for China Daily] The traditional craft of making xuanzhi, or rice paper, dates back about 1,500 years. It has been used by writers, historians and ...