This exhibition is interesting in that instead of highlighting art, it is a look at the martial culture of the Qing court ...

The emperors also gave a grand “tea banquet” in Chonghua Palace (the Hall of Double Glory) in the Forbidden City almost every year during the Qing Dynasty. Chonghua Palace was located in a ...

Originally, most of the cooks and cooking staff in the Qing Palace were Manchus, but this began changing around the middle of the dynasty. Because of the social and economic developments in the ...

A rare Qing Dynasty porcelain vase, once dismissed as a cleverly crafted ... It is believed to have been plundered from an imperial palace in Peking (now Beijing) by British and French soldiers during ...

the Qing dynasty defeated the previous Ming close MingThe ... She is infamous for the money she spent having the Old Summer Palace rebuilt at a time when the empire was struggling.

The Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) and The Palace Museum have jointly unveiled a new exhibition titled "The Art of Armaments — Qing Dynasty Military Collection from The Palace Museum", which ...

the 1740 Qing dynasty vase was looted by British and French soldiers from the Summer Palace in Peking during the Second Opium War occupied by Emperor Xianfeng. Even then it was originally re ...

Huang Ying, curator of a jade exhibition in Beijing's Palace Museum, talks about a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) dark green jade vase duplicate of a Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) bronze vase with a fish ...