Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Chinese flag flies with tourists hiking along the Great Wall, near Beijing, China, November 10, 2025; illustrative. (photo ...

Asia Society Museum presents Imperial Treasures: Chinese Ceramics of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, on view in New York from February 18, 2025 ...

Encompassing 180 acres in central Beijing, the Forbidden City, or a complex of nearly a thousand red palaces, towers, and gardens, pays homage to the reign of one of China’s most powerful ...

In the Ming Dynasty, (1368 – 1644), China established an examination system as a merit-based approach for appointments to government office. There were three levels to the exams, with the final cut ...

When I first heard that there was a dim sum cart restaurant in Albuquerque, I was pleasantly surprised. One of the things I miss from my start-up time in San Francisco was dim sum restaurants, where ...

The roof of a Ming Dynasty tower dating back more than 600 years collapsed in a huge pile of rubble in China's Fengyang county on Monday (19 May). Eyewitness footage showed part of the historic ...

During Chongzhen’s Reign (A.D. 1628-1644), land annexation reached unmitigated extremes, the country faced domestic issues and foreign invasions, coinciding with the catastrophic Little Ice Age. After ...

WHAT: When Sotheby's opened its series of Asia Week auctions in New York earlier this month, the first sale, focused on Ming Dynasty masterpiece ceramics, realized $11.3 million. Top lot was a ...