Porcelain, often referred to as "white gold," has captivated societies across the globe for centuries with its delicat ...

Seaborne commerce on a large scale in Asia dates to the Song Dynasty of China (A.D. 960-1270). The Mongols in the succeeding Yuan Dynasty (ca. 1271-1368) went on to build even more ships on a ...

An outstanding strategist and statesman, he was known as Emperor Tai Zu, founding emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. The period from the late 12th to the early 13th centuries saw strengthened economic ...

In 1271, the Mongols founded China's Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), and it didn't take long for the Mongol elite of Yuan to ...

Dehua is renowned for its production of white porcelain, a prized commodity along the Maritime Silk Road during the Song Dynasty (960-1279) and Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368). The plain white porcelain ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login This book documents the extraordinarily significant transfers and cultural diffusion between the Mongol Yuan Dynasty of China and Central ...

Genghis Khan's grandson, Kublai Khan, defeated the Chinese Southern Song in 1279, and for the first time all of China was under foreign rule. In 1271 Kublai Khan named his dynasty Yuan which means ...