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help of the defecting Ming general Wu Sangui. The Mongol-led Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) ruled before the establishment of the Ming dynasty. Explanations...

Wu entered the capital. The fall of the Ming dynasty was largely caused by a combination of factors. Scholars have argued that the fall of the Ming dynasty...

Yao Ming (Chinese: 姚明; born 12 September 1980) is a Chinese basketball executive and former professional player. He played for the Shanghai Sharks of the...

Wu Ming-ming (Chinese: 吳明敏) is a Taiwanese academic and politician who served on the Legislative Yuan from 2006 to 2008. Wu earned a bachelor's and master's...

captured Beijing and the Chongzhen Emperor committed suicide. The Ming general Wu Sangui then opened the gates of the Shanhai Pass in the eastern section...

Ming-Na Wen (Chinese: 溫明娜; born November 20, 1963) is an American actress and model. She is best known for playing Melinda May / The Cavalry in Agents...

The Ming Great Wall (Chinese: 明長城; pinyin: Ming changcheng), built by the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), forms the most visible parts of the Great Wall of China...

Taizu of Ming (明太祖), personal name Zhu Yuanzhang (朱元璋; Chu Yüan-chang), courtesy name Guorui (國瑞; 国瑞), was the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning...

Certificate. Bored with his mundane life in China, shopworker Yu Ming (Diyu Daniel Wu) decides to move to a random country and picks Ireland by spinning...

Wu Ming, Chinese for "anonymous", is a pseudonym for a group of Italian authors formed in 2000 from a subset of the Luther Blissett community in Bologna...

"simply the best – the tyrant's tyrant". Robert Wu portrays Quan Ming, who transforms into a version of Ming the Merciless during an hallucination that Sam...

Jiguang) and I-Wu County.” Ming Studies 34 (1995): 17-29, pp. 24. Thomas G. Nimick, “Ch’i Chi-kuang (Qi Jiguang) and I-Wu County.” Ming Studies 34 (1995):...

The murders of Ming Qu and Ying Wu occurred on April 11, 2012, when two African-American men shot and murdered two Chinese graduate students from USC...

Zhen, Zhang Da, and Wu Zhong, were court eunuchs employed in the civil service. The rest of the crew was predominantly from the Ming military and mostly...

Ming Hao Tsai (Chinese: 蔡明昊; pinyin: Cài Mínghào; born 1964) is an American chef, restaurateur, and television personality. Tsai's restaurants have focused...

Emperor Yingzong of Ming (Chinese: 明英宗; pinyin: Míng Yīngzōng; 29 November 1427 – 23 February 1464), personal name Zhu Qizhen (simplified Chinese: 朱祁镇;...

The Ming dynasty (23 January 1368 – 25 April 1644), officially the Great Ming, founded by the peasant rebel leader Zhu Yuanzhang, known as the Hongwu...

During the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Chinese painting progressed further basing on the achievements in painted art during the earlier Song dynasty and...

Tsai Ming-liang (Chinese: 蔡明亮; born 27 October 1957) is a Malaysian filmmaker based in Taiwan. Tsai has written and directed 11 feature films, many short...

politician during the Ming dynasty. He is considered by many to be the author of Journey to the West, one of the Classic Chinese Novels. Wu was born in Lianshui...