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

But this small shard of porcelain, dating from the Ming Dynasty (1520–1570), rewrote some of the known narratives of the site’s history. It began when Michael Chernin, an archaeologist with ...

Robinson has completely rewritten our understanding of not only the Ming dynasty and Chinese history, but also the history of early modern Eurasia.' Johan Elverskog, Southern Methodist University, ...

A background essay on the Ming Dynasty, its powerful trade networks and diplomatic missions as far as Africa and the Red Sea, and the domestic tensions that ultimately changed the course of world ...

Historical accounts describe terrifying scenes. Cracks appeared in the ground, water gushed out, city walls and houses ...

The sprawling plains of northern Jiangsu belie that which lurks under foot; millions of years of geological change at work ...

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 ...

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 ...