Roots of Chinese seapower The first Chinese oceangoing trade ships were built far back in the Song dynasty (c. 960-1270). But it was the subsequent Mongol emperors (the Yuan dynasty of c.

Latte art has got nothing on the ancient Chinese art of drawing ... to Japan by a zen master who had visited China during its prosperous Song dynasty (AD960-1279) to study Buddhism, but ended ...

A Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) tomb of an aristocrat has been discovered near the Dong­qian Lake burial complex in Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang Province, according to the China News Service.

The global impact of ancient Chinese paper money was not achieved overnight, but rather through a gradual process. It can be said that the Song Dynasty was the era in which paper money originated ...

NEW YORK — Things didn’t end well for the Chinese Song dynasty emperor Huizong ... and initiated a revival of ancient art forms. He was given to forming what we would call commissions or ...

Recent excavations at the Suyukou site in northwest China's Ningxia ... Xia and Northern Song dynasties, and a reflection of the integration of multi-ethnic exchanges in ancient China," said ...

[Photo/Xinhua] Xinjiang was known as Xiyu, or the Western Regions, in ancient China. Following its unification during the reign of Emperor Qianlong (1735-96) of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the ...

Porcelain produced in kilns in southern China and architectural ... coastal defense town and node on the ancient Maritime Silk Road during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Cao Jing, director of ...

It is the most complete ancient merchant ship that ... of how [it was a] blooming time in Southern Song dynasty,” Lee said. “The products that China [sold to] ... the outside world shows ...

The first examines the ancient Chinese belief in nourishing the afterlife using ritual objects such as the drinking vessel of the Marquis of Lu, from the Western Zhou dynasty (1046-771BC ...