A huge wall running across Mongolia’s desert is changing what archaeologists thought they knew. The Gobi Wall was not just ...

History failed Wanli's hope. The Ming Dynasty came to its end 24 years after his death — his grandson, Zhu Youjian, committed suicide the day the Forbidden City fell. Amid inflation, famine and ...

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Recent excavations beneath the streets of modern-day Shaoxing in eastern Zhejiang province have provided an answer. Over the ...

China's Qing dynasty suffered devastating rebellions like the Taiping Rebellion, humiliating defeats in the Sino-Japanese War ...

Above: from the Ricci Institute's extensive collection, a Chonhado, or Cheonhado: a type of circular map of the world developed in Korea during the 17th century. The internationally acclaimed Ricci ...

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