Qin Shi Huang famously sent alchemists east to Japan seeking immortality. Now, a newly discovered inscription suggests he ...

China's Vice President Han Zheng arrived in Spain on Tuesday for a four-day trip during which he will meet with King Felipe ...

(Zheng He, sponsored by emperor Yongle, was China's greatest naval explorer.) Within Chinese imperial tradition, the emperor was considered the only official inhabitant of the Forbidden City ...

Kenya and China have officially launched the first-ever China-Kenya Culture and Tourism Season, a landmark initiative aimed at deepening cultural ties and boosting tourism between the two nations.

1421, The Year China Discovered The World, a controversial book published in 2003 outlining the voyages of Zheng He during the time of Emperor Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), made Gavin ...

Nostalgia is a killer. The term, originally coined in the late seventeenth century, described an illness that came in ...

Four centuries ago, Ming Dynasty scholar and poet Yuan Hongdao wrote essays which reflected on the workplace. Yuan’s ...

The Galle Trilingual Inscription, a relic of China's Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) legendary navigator and diplomat Zheng He's voyages ... under the decree of Emperor Yongle (Zhu Di), making it ...

Sponsor to Zheng He, the Ming emperor Yongle—pictured in a 20th-century illustration— moved his capital to Beijing and built the Forbidden City, seat of imperial power. Many young boys taken ...

He gained new titles and responsibilities, eventually running the Emperor's household. Ma He became Zheng He and also the commander of Nanjing. "Zheng He’s eclectic religious attitude and ...