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 ...
The ritual use of jade dominated China for millennia, and Qing rulers preserved the tradition, using jade for royal documents ...
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 ...
Chiang A-Hsin Mansion was mortgaged to a bank because of the bankruptcy of Jiang Axin’s Yung Kuang Company. Five decades on, ...
According to Shen Dekui, who is in his 80s and a descendant of the Shen family, the complex was built in 1833 in memory of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mangaluru: A session on the topic ‘Himalayan Geopolitics' held as part of the seventh edition of the Mangaluru Literature ...
Enjoy a transparent pomegranate, squirrel fish in sweet and sour sauce or Fujian surf and turf chicken at these Suzhou ...
China grandstands about Gaza while repressing a Muslim community within its own borders. Hardly anyone seems to notice.
Anna Hu is on a mission to infuse Chinese history into her jewellery and make pieces that celebrate her cultural heritage and ...