With a magnitude of 8, it remains the deadliest earthquake in recorded history, causing widespread destruction across Shaanxi ...

This is a major contribution to the history of Eurasia, the implications of which should change our view of imperial China's place in the world.' Craig Clunas, University of Oxford 'David M. Robinson ...

Drastically refashioning the common image of a dynasty that resurrected Chinese civilization after an age ... Timothy May, Journal of Chinese Military History ‘Robinson’s new book breaks away from the ...

Some famous ancient Buddhist temples and tombs are found here. Xiaoling is the mausoleum of the first Ming Dynasty emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. It is one of the largest imperial mausoleums existing in ...

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, established his capital in Nanjing (Chinese for southern capital). He ate mostly food cooked with the flavors of South China during his ...

Chinese history before 1911 is almost ... early Manchus knew a bit about how the Ming empire worked. Historians have different views about how the Qing dynasty ruled. On the one hand, some view ...

BEIJING, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Dating back to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the Zhengyangmen Archery Tower, located along Beijing's central axis, opened to the public on Thursday.

From a museum remembering the Nanjing massacre to a Confucian temple and the colourful Usnisa Palace, 5 must-see sites for ...