Before you even enter the new Shanghai Astronomy Museum, you feel like you have entered the realm of space. Overhead view of the Ennead Architects-designed Shanghai Astronomy Museum. Bird's eye view ...

The Star Manual of Master Shi is an ancient Chinese star catalog now claimed by astronomers at the Chinese National Astronomical Observatories (NAO) to be the oldest surviving star catalog globally.

Dr. Yunjuan He, associate professor of Chinese, teaches students during the July 2019 STARTALK academy on UNG's Dahlonega Campus. A new STARTALK grant will fund another camp, plus tutoring and ...

The Historical Astronomy Division (HAD) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) has awarded its 2011 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize to Nathan Sivin for his landmark volume “Granting the Seasons: ...

High in Beijing’s sky, the August sun glows red by midafternoon, a star struggling to illuminate China’s crowded capital from above the dust and pollution. I’m in the city along with 3,200 astronomers ...

In the eighteenth century, from opposite ends of the world, a debate raged between two scholars over a seemingly esoteric question: did Chinese history predate Judeo-Christian antiquity? Antoine ...

Chinese scholars have been making astronomical observations for thousands of years, but the country is a relative latecomer to the field’s modern incarnation. That is changing fast, though, as Cui ...

The University of North Georgia (UNG) has received a two-year STARTALK grant of more than $327,000 from the National Security Agency (NSA) to provide instruction on the Chinese language and astronomy ...