preferred to use Chinese in his bureaucracy and established separate rules for the Mongols and for the Chinese. His capital, present-day Beijing, became a cosmopolitan and wealthy city. Kublai Khan ...

The largest is the Han Chinese, numbering 900 million, who reside in every region of the country. The smallest group is the Hezhen, living in the far northeast, with fewer than 2,000 people. This ...

Roots of Chinese seapower The first Chinese oceangoing trade ships were built far back in the Song dynasty (c. 960-1270). But it was the subsequent Mongol emperors (the Yuan dynasty of c.

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Coast Guard on Monday reportedly drove away a suspected Chinese freighter from Taiwan's undersea ...