When Kublai Khan became the first emperor of the Yuan Dynasty and Shangdu city became the capital, the outer city was added to the north and the west of imperial city.

Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) The Yuan emperor established the Xuanzhengyuan, or Ministry for the Spread of Governance, to directly handle important military and political affairs involving the Tibet ...

Imperial Tombs of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) Peerless hero Genghis Khan (Temujin, 1162-1227) was born of the Mongol tribes. An outstanding strategist and statesman, he was known as Emperor Tai ...

Alcohol distilled in a replica of a disgraced emperor’s 2,000-year-old bronze vat may help rewrite China’s drinking history.Although famous medical texts like the 16th century Ming Dynasty’s ...

The History of Tibet - Yuan Dynasty (chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2008-05-06 15:35 Conch with spirals running to the right bestowed upon vPhags-pa by Yuan Emperor.

In 1271, the leader of the charge, Khubilai Khan, grandson of the dreaded Genghis Khan, declared himself emperor of China and head of a new dynasty called the Yuan, meaning “the beginning ...

Hongli, the Qianlong emperor 乾隆帝 (1711-1799) Yongyan, the Jiaqing Emperor (1760-1820; reigned 1796-1820) Zuo'an Li Junzhi (1868-ca. 1930?) C. T. Loo & Company (1914-1948) Credit Line Purchase — ...