The imperial tombs of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), the Song Mausoleums, are in western Gongxian County, Henan Province. Except for Emperor Hui Zong, named Zhao Ji (1082-1135), and Qin ...

and “served to mark the estate boundary of the Song dynasty official, Li Mao-ying, who obtained his Chin-Shi degree in 1226”. Chin-Shi, or jinshi in today’s pinyin, was the highest rank a ...

Ancient Chinese genre painting as a unique art form has been endowed with a relatively broad developing space since the Song Dynasty.

This is Kaifeng City, Henan Province. In A.D. 960, Zhao Kuangyin established the Song (宋) Dynasty and made this place the national capital. In the ensuing 160 years and more, Kaifeng remained the ...

Hu, Jia 2024. The combination of the Song Dynasty patterns and digital technology. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Vol. 39, Issue. 1, p. 175. In this ambitious work of political and ...

Digital reconstruction of treasure trove found in Song dynasty tomb reveals forward-thinking fashion of the day, according to ...

A Chinese dynasty and kingdom existed roughly in parallel to the better-known Song Dynasty, but this one ruled by the nomadic Khitans. A fascinating essay on governance, international relations, ...

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, ...

Mung beans (green beans) came from India during the Northern Song Dynasty. Potatoes, which are eaten both as a staple food and as a vegetable, came from the West. They are believed to have been ...

Journal of Chinese History, p. 1. Charles Hartman presents an ambitious analysis of the workings of governance in Imperial China centered on the Song Dynasty (960–1279). Here he develops a new model ...

A lot changed during the nearly two-year gap between ‘Love Gun’ and the next Kiss studio album, ‘Dynasty,’ and while the record sounds fragmented and somewhat neutered as a result ...

Genghis Khan's grandson, Kublai Khan, defeated the Chinese Southern Song in 1279, and for the first time all of China was under foreign rule. In 1271 Kublai Khan named his dynasty Yuan which means ...