the Lan Su Chinese Garden is among some of the only authentic Chinese gardens in the country. Modeled after China's Ming dynasty scholars gardens, the Lan Su Chinese Garden aims to be a place ...
The garden’s original site dates back to the Ming dynasty but it wasn’t until 1818 ... endless bamboo groves and named it Ge after the Chinese character’s (个) resemblance to the plant ...
Vivian Chung A tranquil oasis nestled at the edge of Chinatown, the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden is the first Ming Dynasty-style garden built outside of China. Guided by the Taoist ...
Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, established his capital in Nanjing (Chinese for southern ... (Records on Waking up in the Garden) Intestine in Intestine: Choose small ...
A background essay on the Ming Dynasty, its powerful trade networks and diplomatic missions as far as Africa and the Red Sea, and the domestic tensions that ultimately changed the course of world ...
Amid the dust and ruins of a site dating back to the Byzantine and Second Temple periods, a glint of porcelain revealed a remarkable find: a fragment of a 16th-century Chinese bowl bearing a poeti ...