When the Yongle Emperor moved the capital north to Beijing, he built an entire new city, re-dredging the Jing-Hang Canal across half a continent to feed it, as if rearranging geography itself were a ...

During the reign of Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty a most grand and extraordinary building was created in Nanjing -- the Glazed Pagoda of Grand Bao'en Temple, once the most illustrious ...

Countless princes' mansions were built in Beijing from the time of Emperor Yongle in the Ming Dynasty. Those of the eight great families of the early Qing and four mansions built in the post ...

Her first book, What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming (University of Washington Press, 2020), examines the building projects of the famous Yongle emperor to consider how ...

After Yongle usurped the throne from Emperor Jianwen, loyal general Yang Wu secretly rescued child prince Zhu Wenkui and placed him in the care of the Wenchang Temple. Ten years later, Wenkui has ...