Since 2022, Changping District has embarked on the journey of the Ming Dynasty Culture Forum, successfully hosting four ...

In May I had the opportunity to spend a month travelling around China. Many things caught my attention while I was there. In ...

1421, The Year China Discovered The World, a controversial book published in 2003 outlining the voyages of Zheng He during ... Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) original, after he read Menzies' book. The ...

It is a pleasure to be back here in Beijing. Some years ago, I spoke about how a changing world was creating a new global map ...

South Korea's unemployment rate remained at 2.7% for a second consecutive month, in line with market expectations. The labour ...

From natural chaos to wartime blasts and industrial disasters, these are history's most powerful non-nuclear explosions measured by force, impact, devastation.

Criterion (iv): The Imperial Palaces provide outstanding examples of the greatest palatial architectural ensembles in China. They illustrate the grandeur of the imperial institution from the Qing ...

When the Qing Dynasty first took control over many parts of Taiwan in ... the capital ended up being moved to Taipei in 1894 — and has remained there since. A 1807 map of Tainan, at the time Taiwan’s ...

Originally built in 1375 during the Ming Dynasty, the building represented administrative power and civic pride. Drum towers existed in ancient China for keeping time and making public announcements.

The roof of a 650-year-old Fengyang Drum Tower in the city of Chuzhou in East China's Anhui province ... Drum Tower was built in 1375 during the Ming Dynasty, the county's official statement ...

‘The Drum Tower’ was built during the Ming Dynasty in 1375, with China’s reportedly largest tower undergoing an extensive rebuild in 1995. According to the BBC, Chinese officials in the ...

The roof of a Ming Dynasty tower dating back more than 600 years collapsed in a huge pile of rubble in China's Fengyang county on Monday ... The tower is more than 600 years old, constructed in 1375 ...