An outstanding strategist and statesman, he was known as Emperor Tai Zu, founding emperor of the Yuan Dynasty ... by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party general headquarters ...

The earliest extant examples of Chinese writing are the inscriptions that appear on so-called oracle bones (animal bones and turtle shells) and on bronze vessels, the oldest of which date back to the ...

The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies is an international society committed to the encouragement of the study of Chinese—as well as Jürchen, Khitan, Tangut, and Mongol—history, ...

Genghis Khan's grandson, Kublai Khan, defeated the Chinese Southern Song in 1279, and for the first time all of China was under foreign rule. In 1271 Kublai Khan named his dynasty Yuan which means ...

A new exhibition about the historic Yongle Palace, a renowned masterpiece of Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) architecture which recently gained fame through its depiction in the popular Chinese game ...

Alcohol distilled in a replica of a disgraced emperor’s 2,000-year-old bronze vat may help rewrite China’s drinking history. Although famous medical texts like the 16th century Ming Dynasty’s Bencao ...