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

SHANGHAI, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- An international research team has discovered that an ancient nomadic group, which migrated from China to Eastern Europe, had preserved almost a reproductive barrier ...

a separate nomadic empire that pushed China to build its Great Wall. The genetic analysis showed that Emperor Wu intermarried with ethnically Han Chinese, China’s dominant ethnic group today.

The Mongol Chinese emperor Kublai Khan was immortalised by English poet Samuel Coleridge’s opium-fuelled descriptions of the “pleasure dome” at Xanadu, the imperial summer capital in northern China.