For a silversmith, it was a good time to be in the business, and Guan had become a wealthy man.... ONE COLD night in the winter of 1657–1658, fourteen years after the Ming dynasty had been overthrown, ...

This time added about 1,600 kilometers (990 miles ... much effort went into building the wall throughout history. The Ming ...

The Qing dynasty was the last imperial dynasty in China. It began in 1644 when the Manchu people from the North overthrew the ruling Ming dynasty and established their capital in Beijing.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, established his capital in Nanjing (Chinese for southern capital). He ate mostly food cooked with the flavors of South China during his ...