With their flood of light and color, Yi Ming’s paintings have sold for high prices at charity auctions and have brought the ...

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 ...

Narrator: The Qing dynasty was the last imperial dynasty in China. It began in 1644 when the Manchu people from the North overthrew the ruling Ming dynasty ... in a Manchu fashion, known as ...

The Galle Trilingual Inscription was originally carved in 1409 during the Yongle reign of the Ming Dynasty at the Longjiang Shipyard in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province, now the site of the ...

For China, that was a period of warfare ... another pass-cum-military fortress was built starting in 1539 during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), in what is now Jiayuguan city, named after the ...

At the heart of the Confucius Temple in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, which is part of the Qinhuai River Scenic Belt, is one of ...

It’s our good fortune that Xu was at large in the golden age of Chinese travel, during the prosperous Ming dynasty (1368-1644 ... he became so broke he sold his clothes to buy food.

They conquered China and founded the Qing dynasty. They spoke Manchu., the Qing dynasty defeated the previous Ming close MingThe ... days whilst taking the exam. During that time, they weren ...

with its landscaped gardens and many buildings (whose nearly 10,000 rooms contain furniture and works of art), constitutes a priceless testimony to Chinese civilization during the Ming and Qing ...

Ancient silk paintings dating to China’s Ming dynasty have yielded ... by stowing away on ships used by admiral Zheng He during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). The expeditions involved tens ...