But the truth is that really big inventions—the printing press ... damage caused by technological shocks. Consider the Ming dynasty of China. The Ming arose in the 1360s, after the chaos ...

The Ming Dynasty, which fought the Manchus ... But were there major non-military inventions during the Song Dynasty that had an impact worldwide? Yates: Printing and movable type were certainly ...

After that, Wang Zhen of the Northern Song Dynasty and Hua Sui of the Ming Dynasty (1368－1644) invented wooden and metal movable-type printing. All later printing methods such as wooden-type ...

An emperor's carpet that once lay in China's Imperial Palace during the Ming dynasty has been sold for $324,500. The carpet, showing a large dragon around a flaming pearl which is seen as a symbol ...

A weekend of shopping and sightseeing in Suzhou - the tourist capital of the Ming dynasty! Michael Wood visits Suzhou, "the Venice of China." Five hundred years ago during the Ming dynasty Suzhou ...