Growing the denominator was more effective in addressing our debt position, and it did so by making Americans richer, not ...

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 ...

In history, of course, this period was called the reigns of Emperor Ren Zong and Emperor Xuan Zong. In fact, however, the two emperors did not make great contributions to the Ming Dynasty.

Her second book, In Death as in Life: A Material History of Ming Dynasty Tombs (in progress), moves away from the imperial, monumental, and expansive and towards sites of much more intimate scale: ...

Seat of supreme power for over five centuries (1416-1911), the Forbidden City in Beijing, with its landscaped gardens and many buildings (whose nearly 10,000 rooms contain furniture and works of art), ...

Civilization 7 is slowly revealing more Civs in the lead-up to its February release, and the Ming Civ seems like a good pick ...

Alcohol distilled in a replica of a disgraced emperor’s 2,000-year-old bronze vat may help rewrite China’s drinking history.

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 ...

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 ...

Ongoing archaeological efforts on the Jiankou Great Wall in Huairou district, a section built during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and known for its steep ridges and rugged terrain, have revealed ...

The phoenix coronet worn by Empress Xiaoduan of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) at the National Museum of China is the inspiration for the crown magnet. WANG JING/CHINA DAILY On a cold December ...