Who was the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty?
Hongwu Emperor
The Hongwu Emperor (21 October 1328– 24 June 1398), personal name Zhu Yuanzhang (Chinese:朱元璋; Wade–Giles:Chu Yuan-chang), was the founding emperor of China's Ming dynasty.
Chin Ning Chu
Chin-Ning Chu is a descendant of Yuan-Zhang Chu, the pauper who became the first Emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644 AD) by defeating the Mongol rule of Genghis Khan. At the age of three, holding tight to her mother's skirt, she ran for her life across the Shanghai airport runway amid bombs bursting as her parents boarded the last commercial flight out of China. Her family, from a life of affluence, were reduced to refugees. At the age of twenty-two, clutching two suitcases, again she up-rooted herself and came to America. She brought two books, Sun Tzu - The Art of War and Li Zongwu - Thick Black Theory.