There has been a substantial amount of writing on Song travel embassies to the dynasty's
northern neighbors—the Liao, the Jin, and the Mongols. Nearly all, however, have been …

In the fall of 1169, the Southern Song scholar-official Lou Yue 樓鑰 (1137-1213) joined a
diplomatic delegation headed by his maternal uncle, Wang Dayou 汪大猷 (1120-1200), and …

Yuanmingyuan 圆明园 (Garden of Perfect Brightness, also known as the Old Summer
Palace) was built in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a summer palace for the …

The eleventh-century travelogue Yu ch'eng-nan chi is well known to modern scholars of
early China for the information it contains concerning T'ang-dynasty antiquities still to be …

Master Hongjiao has practiced all kinds of asceticism, taking the carving of a Buddhist canon
as her fundamental vow. Those who assisted her in soliciting donations, consisting of Liu …

The rise and fall of the palatial imperial garden Yuanming Yuan is the history of the Sinic
Qing Empire in miniature. Its rise paralleled the beginning of the Pax Sinica at the time of the …

“Guang Tianqiao”(wandering around Tianqiao) was one of the most exciting activities for
many of Beijing's residents during the 1920s and 1930s. Some travel guides published in …

Song geographical and other records, as well as archaeological material, indicate the
presence of Chinese migrants on the Penghu archipelago (Pescadores), especially during …

Before the Mongol conquest in 1279, numerous envoys were sent from the Southern Song
court to its neighboring states. Their purpose was to evaluate and tame foreign territories …

Regular army British regiments and ones from the Indian Army, some 3,500 soldiers in all,
systematically set fire to the Yuanming, Changchun, and Qichun Gardens located to the …