These stone carvings have artistic characteristics of the early Ming Dynasty. They are rare art treasures. Stone sculptures lining the spirit path to Xiaoling in Nanjing At the end of the ...

Ancient silk paintings dating to China’s Ming dynasty have yielded new clues about the domestication of brown rats, which according to researchers, could have spread to the rest of the world ...

Focusing on the Ming dynasty, the book examines new approaches to tomb space ... and Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies, among others. She has held visiting research positions at Peking ...

with its landscaped gardens and many buildings (whose nearly 10,000 rooms contain furniture and works of art), constitutes a priceless testimony to Chinese civilization during the Ming and Qing ...

During the Ming dynasty, China’s population doubled ... As the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art writes, “Palace painters excelled in religious themes, moralizing narrative subjects ...