When the Manchu Qing emperors overthrew the Ming, they added new structures and gardens, but the complex’s importance remained undiminished. (A guide to Imperial China's dynasties.) ...

Criterion (iii): The Imperial Palaces bear exceptional testimony to Chinese civilisation at the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties, being true reserves of landscapes, architecture, furnishings and ...

Tucked inside a Temple City strip mall, the opulent restaurant brings imperial Manchu cuisine rooted in the Qing dynasty’s (1644 to 1912) royal courts to Southern California.

The Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) and The Palace Museum have jointly unveiled a new exhibition titled "The Art of Armaments — Qing Dynasty Military Collection from The Palace Museum", which ...

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 ...

The collapse of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) Hong Taiji succeeded his father as khan. In the late 1630s, he renamed his home state "Jin" to "Qing", and promptly declared himself the region's emperor.

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 Palace Examination was the final stage in the sequence of civil service recruitment examinations during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). This examination was prepared and presided over by the Emperor ...

Japan’s puppet state of Manchukuo lasted for just 13 years from 1932 to 1945, ruled by Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing dynasty. Historian Suzuki Sadami looks at the acts of aggression through ...