We have seen China suffer devastating rebellions such as the Taiping rebellion. The country suffered a humiliating defeat ...

Empress Xiaoxian, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, 1777, with repainting possibly in 19th century, Ignatius Sichelbarth (Ai Qimeng) [China (born in Bohemia), 1708–1780], Yi Lantai (active about ...

To understand Chinese culture, it is necessary to go back to the very beginning of its civilisation. Inthis series, we look at the most influential dynasties in Chinese history and how each, with its ...

The kingfisher's brilliant blue feathers were once used like paint to create works of art. The technique, known as tian-tsui, was popular during China's Qing Dynasty. And because tian-tsui uses ...

Probably Giuseppe Castiglione (Lang Shining, 1688–1766) and other court painters, “Consort of the Qianlong emperor and the future Jiaqing emperor in his boyhood” (1760s), painting originally mounted ...

The Qing dynasty lasted over 250 years. China had been ruled by emperors from other dynasties for over two thousand years. Why did this system suddenly collapse in 1911? This is one of the big ...

Promotion of historian who spearheaded rehabilitation of the Qing period prompts speculation that the past is being reinterpreted to bolster President Xi At the height of the Qing dynasty, the Chinese ...

Li Qing, born in 1981 in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, is a contemporary artist known for works that examine perception, reality, and cultural identity through the interplay of Eastern and Western ...

BA, Nanjing University (China); MS, University of Michigan; Ph.D., Syracuse University Miao, Qing and Yiwei Wang. "The Impact of the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards on Technological Changes ...