Birds & Beasts' mainly focuses on the rank badges that civil and military officers would have worn during the Qing dynasty in ...

The ancient Chinese calligraphic scroll by Rao Jie contains an inscription by Emperor Qianlong and his imperial seal.

Castiglione, who lived for many decades in China before his death, served during the reigns of three successive Qing emperors, Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, and it was under Qianlong that he became ...

the missionary couldn't have known that he'd end up serving in the court of Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and would become known as a court painter under his Chinese name of Lang Shining. Castiglione ...

BEIJING - Hongqiao Market, commonly referred to as the Pearl Market, is a feast for the senses in the Chinese capital Beijing ...

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), ...

The exhibition, which features more than 110 artefacts, calligraphy art works, paintings and picnic sets spanning 5,000 years from the Neolithic period to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), is ...

Manchu North-east China Manchu They conquered China and founded the Qing dynasty. Han China Chinese They are the largest ... of poetry and liked to collect art. He sponsored many cultural projects ...

they draw their inspiration from Chinese painting, theater and art, especially that of the Qing, China’s last dynasty that was known for its relative prosperity and cultural advances through ...