A general called Zhang Qian was sent to the Far West by Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty to make contact with Yuezhi, a nomadic tribe. The emperor feared the Xiongnu people – a group who ...

Zhang Qian (?-114 BC) was one most known among those going on mission to the Western Regions in the third year of Emperor Wu Di's reign (138 BC). He spent thirteen years on the mission ...

The terra-cotta army, as it is known, is part of an elaborate mausoleum created to accompany the first emperor of China into ... of court historian Siam Qian during the following Han dynasty ...

Yu Qian was born in 1398 during the reign of the Ming Emperor Hongwu to a family from Qiantang (present-day Hangzhou) in Zhejiang Province, and from his earliest youth was an avid student.