HEILONGJIANG, Northeast China — Tao Qinglan can still speak her mother tongue, Manchu, but everything else has changed since she was born 72 years ago in Sanjiazi Village. She now lives with her ...

QAPQAL XIBE AUTONOMOUS COUNTY, China >> Loyal to the core and prized for their horsemanship, several thousand Manchu soldiers heeded the emperor’s call and, with families and livestock in tow ...

Once marginalised, overseas Chinese have become a vital bridge for China - and a lightning rod for global tensions Wang Gungwu - one of Asia's most respected historians and a pioneering scholar of the ...

HOUSTON, November 17, 2013 — The Empress Dowager Cixi has been traduced, author Jung Chang says.. Reviled as a devious reactionary, the formidable Cixi, whose dour visage, in the minds of many, ...

Research has found that the Han people used to hate Manchu, during China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), because the Communist party labeled Manchu people as an oppressive enemy class.