People in China knew the Qing dynasty was under threat too. The Civil War period had done much harm and China’s defeat by Japan in the Sino-Japanese War of 1895 was a further shock. To China ...

Narrator: The Qing dynasty was the last imperial dynasty in China. It began in 1644 when the Manchu people from the North overthrew the ruling Ming dynasty and established their capital in Beijing.

In its early years, the Qing Dynasty had a tea kitchen (for tea with ... The rites for the meals, the number of people, and the use, cost, variety, and quality of sumptuous courses at each meal ...

Although later oracle bones were unearthed in archaeological efforts in the Yinxu Ruins, the early batches never returned ...

Two 19th-century tiger guardian sculptures, possibly from a Chinese shéndào, or “spirit way.” Ideal for an entranceway or a ...

Tea was popular in the Tang Dynasty. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties prominent officials and eminent people used tea drinking as an occasion to foster friendships and discuss poetry.

The US has returned 41 artefacts and antiques to China as part of a repatriation deal to help Beijing retrieve looted and smuggled relics. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office in New York handed ...

BEIJING: Several of China's breakthrough discoveries in archaeology last year shared the spotlight on Wednesday (Feb 19) at a forum in Beijing organised by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' ...

But at the end of the Qing Dynasty, people gradually realized the system lagged behind with the development of the times. Following the 1904 document, keju was abolished in 1905 to promote the ...