A dazzling new exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art displays the cosmopolitanism that flourished during the reign of Kublai Khan, one of the medieval world’s most powerful emperors For ...

Genghis Khan moved his troops into the quasi-Chinese Chin-ruled north China in 1211, and in 1215 they destroyed the capital city. Hisson Ogodei conquered all of North China by 1234 and ruled it from ...

Painting scrolls on the Mongol invasion of Japan by Fukuda Taika, a 1846 copy of a 1293 work by an unknown artist, Tokyo National Museum. The Mongol fleet beat the Song but had less luck with the ...

China has a love-hate relationship with what is foreign. Traditionally all people beyond the Great Wall were barbarians - only part human. But invaders have sometimes been welcomed, in time, into the ...

Kublai Khan’s horse-mounted warriors may have been the terror of the Asian steppe, but they were much less fearsome when they had to brave the waters of the Pacific ...