The yurt tent has been used by nomadic pastoralist peoples of northern East Asia since before written...
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Written from a Mongolian perspective, the work is an invaluable record of their legends as well as...
Ogedei was a surprising choice for khan because he already had a reputation for often being drunk....
Ultimately, the Mongols would establish the largest empire the world had ever seen. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction...
Distant and mysteriously lost Xanadu came to represent a place of mystery, splendid luxury and easy living....
Interesting myths and fascinating legends about Yü and the origins of the Hsia abound. The existence of...
The Mongols came into contact with many new foodstuffs and recipes from across Asia. Introduction The diet...
Examining two recent discoveries in goji berry chemistry and shedding light on how and why they are...
Designed at human scale, Chinese gardens are meant to be comfortable, intriguing, and pleasing at every turn....
Genghis Khan built the foundations of an empire which would ultimately control one-fifth of the globe. By...
The history of the Society of Jesus’ first missions is a story of great journeys. Abstract During...
These works represent an artistic encounter between East and West. A Controversial Auction In 2009, two eighteenth-century...
In the 19th and early-20th centuries, Japan, among the major countries of Asia, escaped colonial or neo-colonial...
The Sino-Japanese War provided something very new—a modern and highly mechanized war against a foreign foe. Prints...
The findings are some of the earliest evidence of cannabis used as a drug. People have been...
Exploring how China’s economic and diplomatic ties to the outside world shaped its modern history. Originally published...
A new study suggests young dogs were frequently buried with humans in China some 3,000 years ago,...
After their victory in the first Opium War, the British acquired Hong Kong under the 1842 Treaty...
The new vistas of China available after the development of the East India trade attracted many Chinese...
The European explorer Marco Polo (1254-1324 CE) traveled on these routes and described them in depth in...
The reputation of Chinese silk spread so that it became highly desired across the empires of the...
Chinese alchemists developed methods for manipulating minerals and altering the state of substances. Introduction Most of us...
Contact between Korea and China goes back to mythology and prehistory. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction Contact between...
Captain Ching Shih stares death in the face, as she has done many times in her life....
The absence of a glorification of war in China was largely due to Confucian philosophy and literature....
There were over 200 gods and goddesses worshipped throughout ancient China, but if one were to count...
Fook Shing spent 20 years as a Melbourne gumshoe. He policed the thriving Chinese community – claiming...
The United States and European powers had grown increasingly dissatisfied with treaties following the First Opium War....
Western powers tried to gain unfettered access to Chinese products and markets for European and U.S. trade....
How a research team identified parasites in ‘hygiene sticks’ that travellers on the Silk Road effectively used...