An outstanding strategist and statesman, he was known as Emperor Tai Zu, founding emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. The period from the late 12th to the early 13th centuries saw strengthened economic ...
At that time more than one million civilians and soldiers toiled for three years ... Mongol rulers of the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Jin capital. The sumptuous palaces were set ablaze, the fires ...
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, ...