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 ...

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 ...