The Church of the East was already present among various Mongol tribes when Kublai Khan (1260–1294) conquered China. Though ...

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 ...

The Buddhist Bell of the Yuan Dynasty (1279- 1368) is 2.12 meters in height, 1.3 meters in rim diameter and 2,048 kilograrns in weight. Cast with bronze alloy, it contains 71 percent of copper ...

Pure and Infinite reflects the eminent status Hebei enjoyed in white ware production. It was home to the Xing kiln, which ...

A new exhibition about the historic Yongle Palace, a renowned masterpiece of Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) architecture which recently gained fame through its depiction in the popular Chinese game ...

Genghis Khan's grandson, Kublai Khan, defeated the Chinese Southern Song in 1279, and for the first time all of China was under foreign rule. In 1271 Kublai Khan named his dynasty Yuan which means ...

Since then, the temple's extraordinary past has gradually come to light, and the cultural landmark — the only surviving national-level official architectural complex from the Yuan Dynasty ...

The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies is an international society committed to the encouragement of the study of Chinese—as well as Jürchen, Khitan, Tangut, and Mongol—history, ...

The Subjugation of Yuan Shu in Dynasty Warriors Origins is a main story mission in Chapter 4. Here, you must breach Yuan Shu’s fortress and defeat him before his endless reinforcements overwhelm the ...

The British Empire stretched over 13 million square miles across several continents—23 percent of the world's land—at its height in 1922, whence comes the phrase: "The sun never sets on the ...