Ancient silk paintings dating to China's Ming dynasty have yielded new clues about the domestication of brown rats, which ...

The tomb of the first Ming Emperor, the Xiaoling Tomb broke with the past and established the basic design for those that followed in Beijing, and also the Xianling Tomb of the Ming Dynasty 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 ...

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan ...

Many of the artifacts came from the Zhengde period of the Ming dynasty, which spanned 1505 to 1521. But others may be older, dating back to the time of Emperor Hongzhi, who reigned from 1487 to ...

A surge of travel across China during the Qingming Festival holiday has lit up social media with posts tagged "feels like 100 ...

It began in 1644 when the Manchu people from the North overthrew the ruling Ming dynasty and established their capital in Beijing. To ease their transition into power, the first Qing emperor ...

Explore 500 years of China's imperial history at the Forbidden City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site once home to 24 Ming and Qing emperors.

while the 271-km stretch of the Ming Great Wall consists of rammed earth walls, mounds and barriers. In 121 BC, Han Dynasty emperor Liu Che sent General Huo Qubing to the western region of the ...