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

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 ...

A recent study by Chinese researchers has found that the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, one of the most important dynasties in Chinese history, may have been triggered by the Wanli megadrought ...

Narrator: The Qing dynasty was the last ... the conquest because they adopted Chinese ways of governing. For example, the Qing were quick to use former Ming soldiers in their armies and to take ...

The Investiture of the Gods (Fengshen Yanyi), adapted from the 16th-century fantasy novel by Ming ... the Zhou dynasty (1600–256 BC). This epic work blends historical events with Chinese ...