The Church of the East was already present among various Mongol tribes when Kublai Khan (1260–1294) conquered China. Though ...

An outstanding strategist and statesman, he was known as Emperor Tai Zu, founding emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. The period from the late 12th to the early 13th centuries saw strengthened economic ...

The Mongols in the succeeding Yuan Dynasty (ca. 1271-1368 ... Houzhou lies about six miles from Quanzhou, an important Song trading port in what is now Fujian Province. In a series of reports ...

The Twin Pagodas in Quanzhou rank the highest pair among Chinas ... After it burnt down twice during the Song Dynasty, the pagoda was rebuilt, first of brick, then of stone. Its appearance and ...