Zheng He sent 2,000 troops to take the Sri Lankan capital and capture the royal family. The Chinese Emperor eventually pardoned the Sri Lankan king. Each of Zheng He's voyages had different needs ...

Sponsor to Zheng He, the Ming emperor Yongle—pictured in a 20th-century illustration— moved his capital to Beijing and built the Forbidden City, seat of imperial power. AKG/ALBUM.

Qin Shi Huangdi, the first Qin Emperor, ... The state of Qin, based in the Sichuan plains, eventually won out in 221 B.C. under the leadership of the ruthless King Zheng.

Several hundred years before the birth of Christ, the first Chinese emperor, Zheng of Qin, employed security tactics that seem surprisingly modern by today’s standards, including decoy vehicles ...

The prince, who became the Yongle Emperor, awarded Ma an honorific surname Zheng and made him head eunuch. When the Emperor sketched out a plan for Chinese ships to sail to the Indian Ocean, he ...

Chen Kaige’s magnificent and terrifying “The Emperor and the Assassin,” one of the great film epics of the ’90s, is a gorgeous, ferocious historical saga about three renowned Chinese ...

As warlords prowled the countryside after the 1912 abdication of China’s last emperor, Puyi, Zheng and her husband fled to Shanghai to “eat foreign food” -- work as servants for wealthy ...

Zheng He sent 2,000 troops to take the Sri Lankan capital and capture the royal family. The Chinese Emperor eventually pardoned the Sri Lankan king. Each of Zheng He's voyages had different needs ...