NOVA: And what makes Chinese porcelain so durable ... court mark would read "made during the Xuande era of the great Ming Dynasty." A commercial potter would make a mark that just read "made ...

Dubbed the "jade" of Chinese porcelain, Longquan celadon stands out in the long history of Chinese ceramics for its ...

Also known as the Duke Yansheng Residence, the site in Qufu, Shandong province, was the hereditary home of the Confucius ...

The Ming Dynasty marked a pivotal period in Chinese history ... including copper coins and porcelain and pottery items, and 38 pieces of history from the second one, such as lumber, porcelain ...

Tsinghua University, which is located in northwest Beijing, is one of China’s most prestigious universities, and boasts state ...

Loaded with Chinese silk, porcelain, and lacquerware ... When the Han Chinese overthrew the Mongols and founded the Ming dynasty in the later 14th century, they took over the fleet and an already ...

The next 150 years saw China flourish. Trade and commerce grew. Painting, printmaking and porcelain ... how the Ming empire worked. Historians have different views about how the Qing dynasty ...

It’s our good fortune that Xu was at large in the golden age of Chinese travel, during the prosperous Ming dynasty (1368-1644), when commerce was booming and transportation was safer and more ...

Jiangsu Province and Liaoning Province of China. They comprise of the Xianling Tombs of the Ming Dynasty and the Eastern and Western Qing Tombs inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2000; the ...