Both the ceremony and the exhibition were held at the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, located near the Lugou Bridge — also known as the Marco Polo Bridge ...

Kublai Khan emphasized a relatively more diplomatic merging of the Mongols and Chinese, contrary to what most Mongols felt before, which ultimately earned him control of all of China following the ...

A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been erected to control the flow of people, perhaps for tax reasons ...

The great Kublai Khan, grandson of Gengis Khan, was born in 1214. He was the very incarnation of twelve centuries of invasions of sedentary civilisations by nomadic people.

The Mongols, led by Kublai Khan (the grandson of Genghis Khan), captured the geographically important city of Xiangyang after a six-year siege. By 1279, the Song dynasty was finished.

Jack Weatherford: What Kublai Khan lacked in military prowess was made up for in political intuition. Photos / supplied The Mongol Chinese emperor Kublai Khan was immortalised by English poet ...

When Polo encountered the Mongol Empire in 1275, its ruler, Kublai Khan, governed modern-day China (where the empire was known as the Yuan Dynasty).

When Kublai Khan founded the Chinese Yuan Dynasty in 1271, the vast Mongol Empire already stretched across Asia and into parts of Europe. Kublai, who was keen to secure Japan’s support in his ...

Kublai’s father was Tolui, a prominent Mongol general and the youngest son of Genghis Khan and his first wife, Borte. As such, explains Nicholas Morton on the HistoryExtra podcast, Kublai “will have ...

The idea of a woman who considers no man worthy of her and sets strict conditions for suitors has led to various more or less famous creative works. However, it has a historical precedent glossed over ...

Citing Mr Xi’s calls for ethnic solidarity, the authorities have banned some history books and closed memorials to Genghis Khan, the founder of a dynasty that conquered tracts of Eurasia and ...