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 ...

In 1271 Kublai Khan named his dynasty Yuan which means "origin of the universe." The Yuan dynasty in China lasted from 1279 to 1368. Kublai Khan followed a tentative policy of Sinicization, that is, ...

Beijing had been the capital of the preceding Yuan Dynasty. The food in the Yuan palace had been influenced by the Mongolian flavorings. The food in the Ming palace, however, was mainly that of ...

A premise of Chinese history is that the Yuan Dynasty is almost the singular time when a civilisation otherwise nearly impenetrable by foreign influences changed due to forces from the outside.

A bronze head of a young man will be returned to Turkey by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles after learning it was ...

Seaborne commerce on a large scale in Asia dates to the Song Dynasty of China (A.D. 960-1270). The Mongols in the succeeding Yuan Dynasty (ca. 1271-1368) went on to build even more ships on a ...

He was born during the Yuan Dynasty, which was run by the descendants of the Mongols. However, the country was in a state of crisis. Between 1310 and 1340, there were nine different emperors ...

The Ming Dynasty was founded by Zhu Yuanzhang (reigned ... went on to lead a peasant uprising that toppled the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368). During the Ming Dynasty, China experienced ...

During this time, the Mongol Empire had eased trade and commerce across Asia, which the Ilkhanate and China's Yuan Dynasty ...

Shanxi connects the east with the west of China, making it a place where different ethnic groups and cultures meet. The ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login This book documents the extraordinarily significant transfers and cultural diffusion between the Mongol Yuan Dynasty of China and Central ...