He ate mostly food cooked with the flavors of South China during his ruling ... 1567), a prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, had many high – grade sets of dinnerware among his articles of ...
When stir – frying Chinese dishes, the Chinese wok must be used ... Xu Wei (1521 - 1593), a famous painter and literati in the Ming Dynasty, and Yuan Mei (1716 - 1798), a famous man of letters ...
On Wednesday, in London, Sotheby's sold a pair of rare 16th-century Ming Dynasty Chinese jars decorated with orange fish for $12.5 million, blowing the house's $1 million high estimate out of the ...
Drastically refashioning the common image of a dynasty that resurrected Chinese civilization after an age of foreign rule and barbarism, Robinson shows the early Ming emperors as savvy politicians who ...