In the lead-up to China’s Spring Festival holiday, I received an unusual gift from Zheng Wuyi, a Taoist priest in the eastern city of Qingtian. Encased in a bright red tube inscribed with the ...

Archaeologists have found the ruins of a Taoist temple dating back to the Song Dynasty (960-1279) in north China's Hebei Province, local authorities said Saturday. The discovery was a result of a ...

BEIJING – With more than 100,000 pilgrims and visitors expected to attend the annual Xishan Wanshou Palace Temple Fair, authorities thought it would be a good idea to confine the local beggars in one ...

David C. Atherton has a degree in East Asian studies from Harvard and recently returned from a year studying Chinese language and history at Beijing University WUDANG, China — Having seen “Crouching ...

A flourishing nanmu tree towers over a four-storey Taoist temple, perhaps standing guard over it, perhaps taking refuge behind it. The tree, in Guizhou province’s Wuchuan county, is about 400 years ...

2001-07-09 04:00:00 PDT Marysville, Yuba County-- More than a century after the Bok Kai Temple was built by Chinese immigrants, the landmark has been nationally recognized as the artistic and ...