For little under fourteen years, the Taiping Rebellion waged over China. Seventeen provinces were ravished and the estimated ...
China’s Qing dynasty began in a blaze of glory. Founded by the Manchus in 1636, at its peak it ruled over one-third of humanity. Two centuries later, the dynasty was beset by civil unrest, British ...
Beloved artist Qing Han is dead at 29 after cancer battle. Pic credit: @qinniart/Instagram Canadian artist Qing Han has passed away after a battle with cancer. Qing Han, who is known to her fans as ...
The Qing dynasty lasted over 250 years. China had been ruled by emperors from other dynasties for over two thousand years. Why did this system suddenly collapse in 1911? This is one of the big ...
Wang Jin, The Palace Museum / Vladimir Borovikovsky, The State Russian Museum Surprisingly, despite their many differences, the vast Russian and Chinese empires operated along similar lines for nearly ...
Empress Xiaoxian, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, 1777, with repainting possibly in 19th century, Ignatius Sichelbarth (Ai Qimeng) [China (born in Bohemia), 1708–1780], Yi Lantai (active about ...
In a speech on the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sun Yat-sen – seen by many as modern China’s founding father – President Xi Jinping pledged to “resolutely oppose” any attempt to divide the ...
Renowned Chinese actress He Qing, best known as the only performer to portray characters from all four of China's Four Great Classical Novels, has passed away at the age of 61. According to an ...
Seat of supreme power for over five centuries (1416-1911), the Forbidden City in Beijing, with its landscaped gardens and many buildings (whose nearly 10,000 rooms contain furniture and works of art), ...
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