This poem, written by Emperor ... long. It was overthrown by a peasant revolt in 1368. The Mongol court fled the capital and took refuge on the steppes. China’s new reigning dynasty, the Ming ...

Xiaoling is the mausoleum of the first Ming Dynasty emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. It is one of the largest imperial mausoleums existing in China ... title of Hong Wu. Not long after, Zhu Yuanzhang ...

“Zhang is said to have had sharp eyes, a big beard ... and dethrone the last Ming emperor, Zhu Youjian (reigned 1627–1644). Li established his own dynasty in the Chinese capital, but his ...

The Great Wall of China ... century BCE. Emperor Shihuangdi, however, connected the walls into a single system, creating the beginnings of the Great Wall. From the Han to Ming dynasty, different ...

He lived at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries, becoming one of the most unusual emperors in Chinese history—not only as the ... the eighth of the Ming Dynasty, and his mother, surnamed Ji (known ...

The book, Chongzhen: the Diligent Emperor of a Failed Dynasty, republished last month, recounts how the last emperor of the 1368-1644 Ming dynasty ... it says. China has long censored anything ...

Sixteen emperors ruled China during the Ming dynasty, which lasted from 1368 to 1644. Of those, 13 are interred in an extensive burial complex near the base of a mountain range on the outskirts of ...