A rare Qing dynasty painting, titled "The Blue Goats," heads to auction at Sotheby's Hong Kong with a high estimate of $19 ...

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Taiwan's National Palace Museum, home to one of the world's biggest collections of imperial Chinese treasures, does not plan ...

The Western Qing Mausoleums are located at the southern ... tomb to be constructed although its occupant was not the last emperor of China. That honor belonged to Emperor Xuantong (Aisin-gioro ...

Ironically, the imperial edict announcing the abdication of the last Qing emperor, Puyi, on December 25, 1911, was issued by Empress Dowager Longyu in the traditional fashion. No finer mockery of ...

The fourth and longest living ruler of the Qing dynasty, Qianlong Emperor was known for his passion ... heritage,” Zuo added, noting that last year across Sotheby’s auction centers, in ...

A “no photograph upon landing” announcement punctured the serene silence of the cabin as I gazed at the snow-capped peaks outside our airplane window, a stark reminder that we were entering a land of ...

The National Palace Museum, home to one of the world's biggest collections of imperial Chinese treasures, does not plan any ...

For more detail on these diverse ingredients in traditional Chinese apothecaries go here. Items not to scale. Photographed at Emperor’s College of Traditional Oriental Medicine, Santa Monica ...

More than 80 per cent of them are from China's last dynasty, the former Qing court, which was overthrown in 1911. A second branch of the museum opened in the southern county of Chiayi in 2015 ...

On September 18, 1931, the explosion of the Japanese-owned railway track near the city of Mukden, Manchuria in northeastern ...