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 ...
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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 ...
Chiang A-Hsin Mansion was mortgaged to a bank because of the bankruptcy of Jiang Axin’s Yung Kuang Company. Five decades on, ...
Bianca Tse’s photographs could not exist in real life, but the image maker says they capture a distinct Hong Kong “flavor.” ...
The POLY MGM MUSEUM in Macau serves as a convergence point of culture and time, showcasing the blending of Eastern and ...
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 ...
As a document released by the National Cultural Heritage Administration on Friday showed, more than 1.4 billion visits — ...
Following the end of the Qing Dynasty, Chengde became the scene of great destruction. Renovation began in the 1970s, the work ...
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 ...