A special gallery of the Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC is devoted to an exhibition of Chinese cooking...
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The following year, Temujin personally commanded a powerful army of 200,000 to march west. After capturing Otrar, the Mongols massacred...
No sooner had the Mongol Empire been established than it began its territorial expansion, and the Western Xia Kingdom of...
Portrait of Genghis Khan (1162-1227) cenghis Khan, born Temujin, was the founder ofthe Mongol Empire--the largest contiguousempire in history. Reverently...
Aguda resolved on resisting the oppression of the Liao Dynasty. In the ninth lunar month of 1114, he led some...
When the Song Dynasty was first established, the country was still in a situation of disunity. There were the State...
After depriving the generals of their commands, Zhao Kuangyin then spearheaded the attackon local military governors. During the Tang Dynasty,...
A Porcelain Flowerpot Produced by the Junzhou Kiln，the song Dynasty The Junzhou kiln was noted for its unique technique of“glaze...
Since Zhu Wen(852-912)--who originally served under Huang Chao, leader of a peasant uprising starting in 875, but later surrendered--toppled the...
A silver Pot Decorated with Fish-scale Paterns, the Liao Dynasty In the second lunar month of 916 Yeli Abaoji followed...
From then on Wu Zetian began to lay bare her political ambition. At first she allied herself with Wang to...
The Tang tri-color is a general term for the glazed pottery baked during the Tang Dynasty. Usually it was white,...
Unlike the half-liang or five-zhu coins which were named after a certain kind of unit of weight，the Tang coins were...
After the war of reunification was over, the scramble for the throne in the royal family was escalating. Crown Prince...
Just one month after Li Yuan mounted the throne, Xue Ju and his son Xue Rengao who occupied Longxi(western Gansu)...
Li shimin, was the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty. He was famous both for his ability and foresight in...
Unable to deal with the messy situation, Yang Guang simply moved south to Jiangduin 616 accompanied by his wife Empress...
originally named Minzhong, the Fayuan Temple was first built in 645 by Tang Emperor Taizong to hold a memorial ceremony...
Yang Jian had repealed the system of nine-graded official ranks practiced during the Wei-Jin period so that people with various...
Yang Guang: Emperor of the Sui Dynasty Craving for Grandeur and Success Portrait of Yang Guang(569-618) yang Guang was the...