A s Chinese President Xi Jinping visits Southeast Asia, a lesson from the Ming era remains relevant. Without united and open engagement, the Global South risks falling once again to imperialist ...

From the Ming dynasty to the Qing dynasty foreign missionaries have been in the Imperial Astronomical Bureau. Therefore a lot of calendar making in China was influenced by foreigners from 1629 ...

The structures were made up of a ditch about 1 metre deep and 3 metres wide, with the earth from it piled up on one side, creating a wall of compressed earth that may have been a metre or two tall.

Lin Fu Zhen was a name that I constantly rejected as I thought it sounded different from other Indonesian names. Recently, I realised the negative feelings might have stemmed from how the ethnic ...

The Ming dynasty's almost three-hundred-year span witnessed even greater economic and cultural expansion in tandem with a vibrant maritime trade. In the early Ming, blue-and-white porcelain continued ...

Imperial Tombs of the Ming Dynasty Updated: 2007-06-11 08:58. Within Chinese thinking, the number "13" is not an inauspicious omen, except in the case of the Ming Dynasty imperial family.

PHILADELPHIA, July 13.-Dr. Sara Yorke Stevenson, the widely known archeologist of this city, in an article written for The Public Ledger, which will be published to-morrow, tells of the discovery ...

He was the 11th-generation lord of the Shu Kingdom during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) in what is now Sichuan Province. The noble also had the posthumous title of "King of Duan," or the "King of ...

We’re in Chengdu, the capital of China’s Sichuan region, to visit Leenzee, the studio co-founded by Xia in 2016 – and to become the first western publication to play Wuchang: Fallen Feathers ...

Even seated at his littered desk in Canberra's Parliament House, he always seemed bigger than life. His great black eyebrows clumped out angrily, like saltbush in the Great Sandy Desert, and his ...