The search for immortality: tomb treasures of Han China
05 May 2012In the first exhibition of its kind, the Fitzwilliam Museum will relate the story of the quest for immortality and struggle for imperial legitimacy in ancient China’s Han Dynasty.
In the first exhibition of its kind, the Fitzwilliam Museum will relate the story of the quest for immortality and struggle for imperial legitimacy in ancient China’s Han Dynasty.
The persuasive powers of Cold War PR, until now little recognised or discussed, was the subject of a three-day conference at Cambridge University.
Ahead of her talk at the Hay Festival, Dr Amrita Narlikar, Director of the University of Cambridge's new Centre for Rising Powers, discusses how countries like Brazil and China are changing the shape of global politics.
A new research hub dedicated to the study of emerging powers and how different nations evolve to become leading political forces on the world stage, is being created at the University of Cambridge.
Chinese food contains a hidden recipe for living, a new analysis reveals.
How two ‘rising powers’ – China and Russia – interact across the border they share with resource-rich Mongolia is the focus of a network led by the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, as the researchers involved explain.
Research across the University is helping to clean up water in regions around the world.
Cambridge researchers in collaboration with China Mobile are examining the potential of mobile phones to deliver healthcare in China and worldwide.
Many UK manufacturers have transferred their production to low-cost regions to reduce costs. But a new study has discovered that these savings are not as substantial as they first seemed.
China’s rich history of scientific and technical contributions to human culture stretches back to antiquity, as Christopher Cullen has been discovering when it comes to numbers.