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The 400-Year-Old, Million-Dollar Map That Put China at the Center of the World
In 1602, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming dynasty had a big task for his scholars: a map that would depict the entire world. The ...
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A short history of Taiwan and China, in maps - The Economist
European colonisation was harsh and lasted only a few decades. After the Qing dynasty overthrew the Ming dynasty in China in 1644, adherents of the deposed regime fled to Formosa.
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Ming Dynasty Tomb Found in China's Xinfu District
XI'AN, CHINA—According to a report in The Miami Herald, archaeologists from the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology have uncovered a 400-year-old stone tomb dated to the Ming Dynasty in ...