I'm in the Asia gallery of the British Museum, and I'm with a handsome bronze vessel called a gui. It is about the shape and size of a large punch bowl, about a foot (30 cm) across, with two large ...

Archaeologists in China have brewed distilled wine in a replica of a 2,000-year-old bronze vessel unearthed from an emperor’s tomb. The wine was made employing the same process believed to have ...

Chinese Zhou ritual vessel (made around 1050 BC). Bronze gui, found in western China. How often do you dine with the dead? It may seem a strange question, but if you're Chinese it may not be quite ...