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

These documents were nominated not only because they were part of the very rare Yuan-dynasty paper archives, but also because they were written in Phags-pa script, the new Mongolian character, which ...

Following the Tang Dynasty came a period of almost continual warfare known as the Five Dynasties and Ten States. In 960, Zhao Kuangyin, a general of the State of Later Zhou, established the Song ...

TWO dynasties ruled China between the middle of the thirteenth century and the middle of the seventeenth. The first was the Yuan, founded in 1271 not by a Chinese but by a Mongol ... a favorite ...

It was apparently donated to commemorate Japan’s defeat of fleets from the Yuan Dynasty, which ruled present-day Mongolia, China and other regions between 1271 and 1368, shrine officials said in ...

Known for exquisite porcelain production and expansive trade, the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) represents a period of Chinese imperial rule between the fall of the Mongol Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) and the ...

This refers to the military forces of Genko, two military campaigns launched against Japan by the Mongol Empire (Yuan Dynasty) and its vassal state, Goguryeo, in the years 1274 and 1281.

Kublai Khan moved his capital from Mongolia to Beijing and took the Chinese name Yuan as the name of his dynasty. His descendants ruled as emperors of China until 1368. Although controlled by a ...

The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies is an international society committed to the encouragement of the study of Chinese—as well as Jürchen, Khitan, Tangut, and Mongol—history, ...