Construction continued up to the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), when the Great Wall became the world's largest military structure. Its historic and strategic importance is matched only by its architectural ...

"The Great Wall impresses everyone who sees it for the first time, from children to adults, from the general tourists to scholars,” says Henry Ng, the manager of the World Monuments Fund’s ...

The Xi’an wall faced the threat of demolition during the 1950s as part of the country’s Great Leap Forward narrative. Cheng says that even though widespread demolition started even earlier ...

A Japanese man and woman in their 20s were detained for about two weeks over a picture of the man exposing his buttocks at the Grea ...