The Qing Dynasty had ten emperors altogether, five buried in the East Tombs and the rest, except for final emperor Pu Yi, buried in the West Tombs, over 120 kilometers west of Beijing. China had a ...

"The exquisite ceramic ware produced at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory at Jingdezhen in southern China functioned as a kind of visual propaganda for the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) court. Through a ...

Probably Giuseppe Castiglione (Lang Shining, 1688–1766) and other court painters, “Consort of the Qianlong emperor and the future Jiaqing emperor in his boyhood” (1760s), painting originally mounted ...

The Ming and Qing imperial tombs are natural sites modified by human influence, carefully chosen according to the principles of geomancy (Fengshui) to house numerous buildings of traditional ...

Shenyang Imperial Palace, modeled after the Forbidden City in Beijing, is full of Manchu influences. Hu Jibin / Asia News Photo Hetu Ala, the birthplace of Qing's first emperor, Nurhachi. Tiffany Tan ...

THE three Qing emperors who reigned for 133 years, until 1795, were among the greatest rulers ever. Under their influence, China's empire doubled in size, becoming one of the most powerful and ...

Ethnic hatred exists in almost every culture. The history of some hatreds may go back hundreds, or even thousands of years. As people growing up in China, we find that the relationship between Han ...

He is notorious for his cold calculation, credited with forcing his stepmother to commit sacrificial suicide upon the death of his father to rid himself of a potential political foe. He was also a man ...