In the middle of the Ming Dynasty there were great varieties of ... those called by the emperor were given a cake wrapped in red silk. When Imperial College students paid tribute to Confucius ...

By the end of the dynasty, both court ladies and commoners had adopted the new silk flower style. In the Ming and Qing, whole branches of the flowers, potted plants and wreaths were being produces ...

A background essay on the Ming Dynasty, its powerful trade networks and diplomatic missions as far as Africa and the Red Sea, and the domestic tensions that ultimately changed the course of world ...

The mass production of Dehua white ware can be traced to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), and in the 17th and 18th centuries it ...

Succeeding emperors and dynasties continued the construction, spreading westward into the Gobi desert to guard the Silk Road ... it largely dates from the Ming dynasty from the 14th to the ...

Nanxun, a stunning 1,000-year-old town in China, is known as "the Venice of the East" - and it's not hard to see why.