Essayist Hu Wenhui's term "garbage time of history" describes China's current economic stagnation and societal despair under ...

The tomb of Emperor Wanli (reigned 1537-1619) and its underground place are located at the foot of Dayu Mountain southwest of the Changling tomb. Emperor Wanli was buried here in 1620 with two of ...

During the reign of Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty a large sarira dagoba was constructed in Tayuan Temple. The temple was designed with the sarira dagoba as the center, with the main hall in ...

including the Chia-ching Emperor, who became so obsessed with Daoist ceremonies and alchemy that he neglected his duties; his successor, the Wanli Emperor, turned his attention to gaining personal ...

The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany the first emperor of China into the afterlife, according to archaeologists. Ying Zheng took the throne ...

Disfigured, awkward and clumsy, Claudius (10 BC – 54 AD / Reigned 41 – 54 AD) was the black sheep of his family and an unlikely emperor. Once in place, he was fairly successful, but his poor ...

If ever a picture was worth a thousand words, it was the image of General MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito standing side by side during their historic first meeting on September 27, 1945.

The emperor is the largest living penguin species standing around 115cm tall. Once they have found a partner they usually mate for life and work together to keep their young fed and safe. They might ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Roger Hughes has never seen emperor penguins in the wild. But when he saw them in a BBC documentary, rocketing ...

A set of bowls displayed in a house for decades has made more than £112,000 at auction. The ceramics, stored in a cardboard box before being offered for sale, turned out to be rare Chinese porcelain.

Our investigation of the disastrous society-wide collapses of four premodern polities, China’s Ming Dynasty, the South Asian ...