They succeeded but the price of their success was the founding of a new, Manchu-led, dynasty known as the Qing. Their rulers would go on to rebuild Beijing, and much of the Forbidden City ...

The Forbidden City would be the home and seat of power for 24 rulers—14 from the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and 10 from the Qing (1644-1911). When the Manchu Qing emperors overthrew the Ming ...

The Qing Dynasty was founded by a northeast Asian group that called themselves Manchu. These conquering rulers adopted the Forbidden City in Beijing as their new seat of government but were unique ...

national culinary pride swelled toward one legendary banquet called the “Manchu-Han Feast” (or Man Han Quan Xi), which first appeared outside of the Forbidden City in the late Qing Dynasty and ...

My family went to the Forbidden City, Beijing, China, in December 2014. It is one of the most famous palaces in the world. After my visit, I learned a lot from my own Chinese background and about ...

Using a variety of toys, games and even film reels, here are the ways royals locked inside China’s Forbidden City entertained ... technical virtuosity of Qing dynasty (1636–1912) craftsmen ...

The Forbidden City, which turns 600 this year ... Though emperors of the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) added some new buildings and gardens, the layout of the palace has remained fundamentally the ...

Nearly any person you speak to has heard of Beijing’s most famous site — the Great Wall of China. However, Beijing is an intriguing city for many other reasons. Ancient temples stand side-by-side with ...

A discovery at the Forbidden City in Beijing suggests that Lunar New Year was just as big an entertainment event on the calendar for one Qing dynasty emperor as it is for hundreds of millions of ...

The imperial food served within the walls of the Forbidden City by the Qing Dynasty had an important effect on Chinese dietetic culture. Using the traditional diet of the Manchu ethnic group as ...

The Forbidden City, which turns 600 this year ... Though emperors of the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) added some new buildings and gardens, the layout of the palace has remained fundamentally the ...