BEIJING, China (AP) — In Beijing’s Forbidden City, once the sprawling palace to China’s Ming and Qing emperors and their legions of guards and servants, steady streams of visitors wearing historical ...
A several hundred-year-old table was sold at auction for RMB 115 million or approximately $18 million. The Chinese table was sold on Dec. 5 at the Beijing Poly International Auction during its ...
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 ...
Temporary dams (left) near the confluence of the Min and Jin Rivers in China’s Sichuan Province have allowed archaeologists to excavate more than 76,000 artifacts. Many of these artifacts belonged to ...
Identifying civil rank badges -- Identifying military rank badges -- Rank badge iconography -- Ming dynasty rank badges -- Rank badges under the Shunzi emperor -- Rank badges under the Kangxi emperor ...
The Chinese artwork, dating from the Qing dynasty, went under the hammer at The Cotswold Auction Company’s Antiques and Interiors sale in Cirencester on January 20 and 21. Styled after the Ming ...
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Commissioned more than 600 years ago by Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), Yongle Dadian was designed to be the sum of all human knowledge, a compendium of everything worth preserving ...
The Guanyin Temple in Xinjin district, Chengdu, Sichuan province, is known for its ancient architecture and exquisite Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) murals.[Photo provided to China Daily] Several visitors ...
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