According to Ming Pao she could not take the money because she would no longer have the freedom to communicate the revolution.

* Ming Pao Weekly Grand Salute Award for Passion Tour 2000

* Ming Pao Weekly Performing Arts Awards Most Outstanding Actor for Inner Senses 2002

Not only was the name changed, but also it was relocated to its present place from the old location near Chai Wan pier / Ming Pao Industrial Centre.

Ming Pao () is a Chinese language newspaper published by Ming Pao Group in Hong Kong.

In the 1990s, Ming Pao established four overseas branches in North America, each provides independent reporting on local news and collect local advertisements.

Currently, only the two Canadian editions remain: Ming Pao Toronto and Ming Pao Vancouver.

Ming Pao New York and Ming Pao San Francisco ceased operations on January 31 and February 14, 2009, respectively.

According to a Media Credibility Survey conducted by Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2006, Ming Pao was selected as the most credible Chinese language newspaper.

Well known for its accuracy in language, many secondary schools in Hong Kong encourage their students to subscribe to Ming Pao in order to improve their Chinese language.

Ming Pao was then taken over by Tan Sri Datuk TIONG Hiew King in 1995.

Ming Pao now is published by Ming Pao Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Media Chinese International Limited, which was formed by the successful merger of Ming Pao Enterprise Corporation Limited ( Hong Kong ), Sin Chew Media Corporations Berhad ( Malaysia ) and Nanyang Press Holdings Berhad ( Malaysia ) in April 2008.

The idea of signing the worker's name and birth date on the brick and the place where it was made was not new to the Ming era and had little or nothing to do with vanity.

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

The Yuan Dynasty was eventually overthrown by the Ming Dynasty in 1368.

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.

It was this same bureaucracy that later prevented the Ming government from being able to adapt to changes in society, and eventually led to its decline.

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

While the Great Wall had been built in earlier times, most of what is seen today was either built or repaired by the Ming.

The Manchu allied with the Ming Dynasty general Wu Sangui to seize Beijing, which was made the capital of the Qing dynasty, and then proceeded to subdue the remaining Ming's resistance in the south.

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.

Only during the Ming Dynasty was the School of Mind revived by Wang Shouren, whose influence is equal to that of Zhu Xi.

In former times, it was customary to have a portrait in Confucius Temples ; however, during the reign of Hongwu Emperor ( Taizu ) of the Ming dynasty it was decided that the only proper portrait of Confucius should be in the temple in his hometown, Qufu.

One of the early attempts was an electro-mechanical Chinese typewriter Ming kwai () which was invented by Lin Yutang, a prominent Chinese writer.

" According to Anders Hansson, by the Ming and Qing dynasties, " upward mobility into the elite was theoretically possible for virtually all male commoners.

Pressure by Ann Ming, the mother of 1989 murder victim Julie Hogg — whose killer, William Dunlop, was initially acquitted in 1991 and subsequently confessed — also contributed to the demand for legal change.

The Chinese emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty oversaw the compilation of the Yongle Encyclopedia, one of the largest encyclopedias in history, which was completed in 1408 and comprised over 370 million Chinese characters in 11, 000 handwritten volumes, of which only about 400 remain today.

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

During the Chinese Song Dynasty ( 960-1279 AD ), not only landscape art was improved upon, but portrait painting became more standardized and sophisticated than before ( for example, refer to Emperor Huizong of Song ), and reached its classical age maturity during the Ming Dynasty ( 1368-1644 AD ).

Inoculation was reportedly not widely practised in China until the reign of the Longqing Emperor ( r. 1567 – 1572 ) during the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ), as written by Yu Tianchi in his Shadou jijie ( 痧痘集解 ) of 1727, which he alleges was based on Wang Zhangren's Douzhen jinjing lu ( 痘疹金鏡錄 ) of 1579.

Ieoh Ming Pei was born on April 26, 1917 to Tsuyee Pei and Lien Kwun, and the family moved to Hong Kong one year later.

Records of the Grand Historian is the first among Twenty-Four Histories, a collection of Chinese historical books covering a period of history from 3000 BCE to the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century.

During the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Yongle bestowed the title Great Treasure Prince of Dharma, the first of the three Princes of Dharma, upon the Black-Hat Karmapa.

* 1405 – Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.

As vassal of Ming China, the Koreans at first refused talks entirely, and in April and July 1591 refused demands that Japanese troops be allowed to march through Korea.

* The first Spanish galleon, laden with silver for the porcelain and silk trade with the Ming Dynasty of China, lands at Manila in the Philippines.

* Chinese Ming Dynasty records indicate that the War Ministry official He Ru is the first to acquire the Portuguese breech-loading culverin, while copies of them are made by two Westernized Chinese at Beijing, Yang San ( Pedro Yang ) and Dai Ming.

* The Jesuit Matteo Ricci becomes the first European to enter the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, during the Ming Dynasty.

* The Beijing Gazette makes an official switch in its production process of newspapers, from woodblock printing to movable type printing ; private newspapers in Ming Dynasty China were first mentioned in 1582.

* June 27 – The first English venture to China is undertaken by Admiral Weddell, who sails into port in Macau and Canton during the late Ming Dynasty.

* Six European ships dock at a port in China, bringing 38, 421 pairs of eyeglasses to China during the late Ming Dynasty, the first recorded European-made eyeglasses to enter China.

* July 11 – Ming Dynasty fleet commander Zheng He sets sail from Suzhou to explore the world for the first time.

* The first in a decade-long series of severe famines and epidemics sweep central and southeastern China during the Ming Dynasty, made worse by a previous decision in 1527 to cut back on the intake of grain quotas for granaries.

Vancouver's Chinatown contains numerous galleries, shops, restaurants, and markets, in addition to the Chinese Cultural Centre and the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden and park ; the garden is the first and one of the largest Ming era-style Chinese gardens outside China.

* After years of begging and being a Buddhist monk, the penniless Chinese peasant Zhu Yuanzhang joins the Red Turban Rebellion against the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty of China ; he will later become the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

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.

Chinese expeditions reached this area as early as the first half of the 15th century, when the fleets of the Ming eunuch Yishiha sailed several times from Jilin City all the way to Tyr on the lower Amur.

The exceptions are the first two emperors of the Qing Dynasty, and Emperor Yīngzōng ( 英宗 ) of Ming, who had two era names.

The Ming Hongwu Emperor was the first to propose a policy to ban all maritime shipping in 1371.

The Ming government first labeled the Japanese raiders as " dwarf pirates ", and soon discovered many to be renegade Chinese who joined ronin samurai to battle the Ming regime.

At first he attempted to use the captured emperor to raise a ransom and planned to conquer the undefended Ming capital of Beijing.

Two of the first patterns Lenox produced were introduced in 1917, the Ming and Mandarin, which were eventually manufactured for over fifty years.

The first Ming Emperor copied the Yuan ruling and decreed that the dragon would be his emblem and that it would have five toes ( or claws ) The four-clawed dragon was typically for imperial nobility and certain high-ranking officials.

* Wang Zhen: first Ming eunuch with much power, see Tumu Crisis