Trade and commerce grew ... even the early Manchus knew a bit about how the Ming empire worked. Historians have different views about how the Qing dynasty ruled. On the one hand, some view ...

These developments highlight China's growing global influence and its increasingly central role in shaping a coordinated international response to Trump's trade war. Not since the Ming dynasty has ...

Some famous ancient Buddhist temples and tombs are found here. Xiaoling is the mausoleum of the first Ming Dynasty emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. It is one of the largest imperial mausoleums existing in ...