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China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight cent
'Effortless and compelling, Brooks is a wonderful storyteller. I doubt I will read a better book this year.' Sunday Telegraph Each of Vermeer's paintings tells a story. In one, a military officer leans toward a laughing girl; in another, a wom
How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of historys mighty empires In 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China, bu
The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empirea millennium and a half in the makingwas suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no