During the reign of Emperor Yongle, bells were cast in many places to hold services for the enhancement of Buddhism and Taoism or give the correct time for better urban management. Three bells ...

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 ...

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 ...