1999 Map of the protective zone of the Xianling Tomb of the Ming Dynasty 1999 Map of the protective zone of the Eastern Qing Tombs 1999 Map of the protective zone of the Western Qing Tombs The ...

Part of the Ming's inward-looking worldview was the tendency of Chinese people to see China as the entire world. European maps of the time depicted Europe as the tiny peninsula of Eurasia that it ...

This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: ...

a historian who has written several books on the Ming dynasty, most recently Mr. Selden’s Map of China. “His remarkable powers of observation bring the era to life for us in an ...

Narrator: The Qing dynasty was the last imperial dynasty in China. It began in 1644 when the Manchu people from the North overthrew the ruling Ming dynasty ... caption, The map shows in yellow ...

Ancient silk paintings dating to China’s Ming dynasty have yielded new clues about the domestication of brown rats, which according to researchers, could have spread to the rest of the world ...

Jiangsu Province and Liaoning Province of China. They comprise of the Xianling Tombs of the Ming Dynasty and the Eastern and Western Qing Tombs inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2000; the ...