When Frenchman Remi Launay, 29, visited Beijing's Yuanmingyuan, or Old Summer Palace, in summer, the lines of a letter by ...
The umbrella on display was given to Lieutenant Thomas Walsh, at the end of World War I, by members of the Chinese Labour Corps, who worked in northern France helping Britain and France in the war ...
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The tea thief
It had taken Robert Fortune years of extensive planning and three months of arduous travel by boat, sedan chair and on foot disguised as a mandarin. His aim was to reach the black tea hills in the ...
The ritual use of jade dominated China for millennia, and Qing rulers preserved the tradition, using jade for royal documents ...
Chiang A-Hsin Mansion was mortgaged to a bank because of the bankruptcy of Jiang Axin’s Yung Kuang Company. Five decades on, ...
As a document released by the National Cultural Heritage Administration on Friday showed, more than 1.4 billion visits — ...
Get a glimpse of Chinese history from 1.7 million years ago to the Qing Dynasty in 1912 by visiting the most visited museum in Asia, the National Museum of China. Located in Beijing, this museum is ...
Following the end of the Qing Dynasty, Chengde became the scene of great destruction. Renovation began in the 1970s, the work ...
A 16-year-old Tiway Kalang and 13-year-old Rutuk Sayion fled south to Ciwidian Village in today’s Shoufeng Township (壽豐) in ...
Bianca Tse’s photographs could not exist in real life, but the image maker says they capture a distinct Hong Kong “flavor.” ...
But after the Qing dynasty paid compensation ... it has become forgotten history,” Hirano said. The catalyst for reconciliation efforts between the peoples of Okinawa and Taiwan was a 2004 ...
Ong’s latest piece, “HALO,” relies on an existing architectural structure to provide a site-specific framework. Beams of ...