Ming Tsai, the owner of the Blue Ginger restaurant in Wellesley, Massachusetts, said that American Chinese restaurants typically try to have food representing 3-5 regions of China at one time, have chop suey, or have " fried vegetables and some protein in a thick sauce ," " eight different sweet and sour dishes ," or " a whole page of 20 different chow meins or fried rice dishes.

* 1644 – The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming Dynasty China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.

The historian Timothy Brook writes of the production process in Ming Dynasty China ( aided with visual illustrations from the Tiangong Kaiwu encyclopedic text published in 1637 ):

The Qin Dynasty is well known for beginning the Great Wall of China, which was later augmented and enhanced during the Ming Dynasty.

Despite the xenophobia and intellectual introspection characteristic of the increasingly popular new school of neo-Confucianism, China under the early Ming Dynasty was not isolated.

During the Ming dynasty the last construction on the Great Wall was undertaken to protect China from foreign invasions.

Between 1673 and 1681, the Emperor Kangxi suppressed an uprising of three generals in Southern China who had been denied hereditary rule to large fiefdoms granted by the previous emperor ; he also put down a Ming restorationist invasion from Taiwan, called the Revolt of the Three Feudatories.

In 1683, the Qing staged an amphibious assault on southern Taiwan, bringing down the rebel Grand Duchy of Tungning, which was founded by the Ming loyalist Koxinga in 1662 after the fall of the Southern Ming, and had served as a base for continued Ming resistance in Southern China.

* Mote, Frederick W. Imperial China, 900 – 1800 Harvard University Press, 1999, 1, 136 pages, the authoritative treatment of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties ;

The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China.

The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties ( 2010 ) 329 pages.

A Tale of Two Melons: Emperor and Subject in Ming China.

Chaste widows were revered as heroes during the Ming and Qing periods, and were deemed so central to China ’ s culture and the fate of all peoples, the Yongle Emperor distributed 10, 000 copies of the Biographies of Exemplary Women ( Lienü Zhuan ) to various non-Chinese countries for their moral instruction.

The Compendium of Materia Medica is a pharmaceutical text written by Li Shizhen ( 1518 – 1593 AD ) during the Ming Dynasty of China.

In the film, Marker's commentary overlaps scenes from China, such as tombs which, contrary to Westernized understandings of Chinese legends, do not contain the remains of any Ming Dynasty emperors.

The Ming Chinese also mounted over 3, 000 cast bronze and iron cannon on the Great Wall of China, to defend against the Mongols.

However in Ming China, for example, there is considerable evidence for rapidly changing fashions in Chinese clothing.

Painting of a giraffe imported to China during the Ming Dynasty

It was then taken to China by explorer Zheng He and placed in a Ming Dynasty zoo.

China | Chinese Ming Dynasty ( 1368-1644 ) matchlock firearm s

Prior to Gardner's investigations, no serious archaeological excavation had occurred at the city, though he himself soon unearthed four miles of earthworks, and uncovered finds that included tombs, pottery, and porcelain dating from Ming China.

China flourished again late in the medieval era during the famed Ming Dynasty.

Over the next half-century, all areas previously under the Ming Dynasty were consolidated under the Qing.

The Grand Secretariat (; Ma: 40px Dorgi yamun ), which had been an important policy-making body under the Ming Dynasty, lost its importance during the Qing Dynasty and evolved into an imperial chancery.

As the war with Ming Dynasty progressed and the Han Chinese population under Manchu rule increased, Hong Taiji created a separate branch of Han Banners to draw on this new source of manpower.

Aspects of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism were consciously synthesized in the Neo-Confucian school, which eventually became Imperial orthodoxy for state bureaucratic purposes under the Ming ( 1368 – 1644 ).

In 1593, Ming Chinese Emperor Wanli sent an army under general Li Rusong to block the planned invasion of China and recapture the Korean peninsula.

* The Manchu under their leader Huang Taiji raid the Ming Chinese province of Shandong from their base in Manchuria.

* Massive flooding in central and southern China motivates the initial construction of hundreds of new bridges under the Ming Dynasty.

* The Manchu tribal leader Nurhaci breaks his relations with the Ming Dynasty of China, then under the aloof and growingly negligent Wanli Emperor ; Nurhaci's line later becomes the emperors of the Qing Dynasty which overthrows the short-lived Shun Dynasty in 1644 and the remnants of the Ming throne in 1662.

* October 22 – A Ming dynasty fleet under Zheng Zhilong beat a Dutch East India Company fleet at the island of Quemoy.

* The Chinese Ministry of War under the Ming Dynasty orders ships having more than one mast sailing along the southeast coast to be seized, investigated, and destroyed ; this in an effort to curb piracy and limit private commercial trade abroad.

* The Ming Dynasty of China under the Yongle Emperor invades and conquers Vietnam, renaming the area Annam, after abandoning its support for reestablishing the Trần Dynasty over the Hồ dynasty.

He didn't forget China after the immigration to Brunei, but continued to perpetuate Chinese cultural identity under the new Ming Dynasty.

In Qinghai, the Salar Muslims voluntarily came under Ming rule, their clan leaders capitulating around 1370.

The Ming solidified control over Manchuria under Yongle Emperor ( 1402 – 1424 ).

This was the main driving factor for the Portuguese explorations of the Indian Ocean, including the sea of China, resulting in the arrival in 1513 of the first European trading ship to the coasts of China, under Jorge Álvares and Rafael Perestrello, followed by the Fernão Pires de Andrade and Tomé Pires diplomatic and commercial mission of 1517, under the orders of Manuel I of Portugal, which opened formally relations between the Portuguese Empire and the Ming Dynasty during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.

The 15 administrative units of the Ming Dynasty underwent minor reforms to become the Eighteen Provinces ( 一十八行省 Pinyin: Yīshíbā Xíngshěng, or 十八省 Shíbā Shěng ) of China proper under the Qing Dynasty.

The Manchus subsequently invaded Ming China in 1644, bringing it under the control of their newly established Qing Dynasty.

In July 1934, the leaders of the Party, dominated by the " Twenty-Eight Bolsheviks ", a militant group formed in Moscow by Wang Ming and Bo Gu, forced Mao from the Politburo of the Communist Party in Ruijin and placed him briefly under house arrest.

Under the Ming Dynasty, commerce in Northeast Asia and Sakhalin was placed under the " system for subjugated peoples ", or ximin tizhi.

Ming China under the Yongle Emperor ( 1424 )