IT'S a good time to be a Manchu on television. Costume dramas such as “Palace” and “Bu Bu Jing Xin”, which feature modern-day protagonists flung back in time to the days of the Qing ...

Narrator: The Qing dynasty was the last imperial dynasty in China. It began in 1644 when the Manchu people from the North overthrew the ruling Ming dynasty and established their capital in Beijing ...

Emperors of the Qing never identified themselves as rulers of a Manchu empire. Secondly, the argument ignores the historical fact that the Chinese nation continued to form and develop as a ...

The Imperial Palace of the Qing Dynasty in Shenyang was built between 1625 and 1637 by Nurgaci for the Nuzhen/Manchu forebears of the Qing Dynasty, which established itself in Beijing in 1644. Also ...

Imperial meals in the Qing Palace were dominated by the Manchu cuisine, but they also included the Shandong and the Suzhou – Hangzhou cuisines. These three cuisines were influenced by and ...

On February 12, 1912 China’s boy emperor, Hsuan T’ung, was forced to abdicate, ending the Manchu Ch’ing dynasty. The last dynasty of China — Qing dynasty or Manchu dynasty, ruled the ...

It all starts, Zhao tells CNN, with Kangxi, an emperor of the Manchu-led Qing Dynasty that seized full control of China after 1644 when the Ming imperial family, aligned with China’s majority ...

Manchu emperors had multiple wives, but only one empress at a time. All the imperial wives were selected from the descendants of the conquering elite—those who helped to overthrow the Chinese Ming ...

Bai Jiashi, 68, is a Manchu who is distantly related to the former Qing imperial family. During the Qing dynasty, his family acted as caretakers for the imperial tombs. "It was like pie from the ...