Did you know the Great Wall of China is over 21,000 kilometers long? It’s about three times longer than we thought. This ...

Researchers link the collapse of the Ming Dynasty to severe droughts, offering new insights into how climate shaped ancient ...

This volume deals with four non-Chinese regimes: the Khitan dynasty of Liao; the Tangut state of Hsi Hsia; the Jurchen empire of Chin ... problems not just as a long negative episode in China's ...

Despite the strength and prosperity that marked their empire, Ming emperors ... Here was one of history's great turning points. Had the Chinese emperors continued their huge investments in the ...

The Chinese Empire Reform Association (CERA), known for its attempt ... This document is part of a series of companions to A Brief Chronology of Chinese Canadian History: from Segregation to ...

By 1275, under Chinggis's grandson Khubilai Khan, the Mongols had established the largest land-based empire in the history of the world, stretching from Korea to southern China, through central Asia ...

Throughout history, as any anthropologist will tell ... of course, is that the Chinese Empire is immense, and that it straddles a hugely diverse geographic region. And in the case of the Han ...

It became a Japanese colony in 1895, after the Qing empire lost the first ... a name Taiwan has retained. The Chinese Communist Party points to this history to claim Taiwan. But the Taiwanese ...

PRESENTER:'The Chinese Empire ended in 1911 ... that it held the key not only to history, but to the future. PRESENTER:The 12 people sitting here were the representatives of just 57 members.

History helps explain this mentality. Still on Chinese people's minds is the period ... "We must not be in an illusion about this world-class evil empire." Needless to say, it will take a lot ...

“Because the walls were defensive structures, you can learn about building and engineering skills throughout ancient China as well as its military history and strategies,” Ng says. “The wall ...

both before the Mongol conquest of China and after the establishment of the Yuan dynasty.' Bret Hinsch, NAN NÜ '… Broadbridge’s book is impeccably researched. It is a welcome addition to the field of ...