By the middle of the tenth century, the Khitan, with a population of about 750,000 ... the Kingdom of Koryo accepted a status as a vassal of the Liao. Meanwhile the Song Dynasty reunified China in 960 ...

Ancient Chinese genre painting as a unique art form has been endowed with a relatively broad developing space since the Song Dynasty.

In the Han Dynasty compasses consisted of a bronze on which 24 directions were carved and a rod made from a natural magnet. Such devices were in use until the eighth century. In the Song Dynasty ...

The Song dynasty (960-1279 C.E.) saw a great proliferation of publishing ... Movable type was invented in the mid-eleventh century. It was based on a principle of assembling individual characters made ...

The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies is an international society committed to the encouragement of the study of Chinese—as well as Jürchen, Khitan, Tangut, and Mongol—history, ...

This is Kaifeng City, Henan Province. In A.D. 960, Zhao Kuangyin established the Song (宋) Dynasty and made this place the national capital. In the ensuing 160 years and more, Kaifeng remained the ...