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 ...

A surge of travel across China during the Qingming Festival holiday has lit up social media with posts tagged "feels like 100 million people are here." As the first major outing opportunity since the ...

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.

the fifth emperor of the Ming dynasty, from the collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing. “The scroll consists of three paintings of three rats showing the morphological characters of the ...