European countries expanded their colonies in Asia and Africa. By the mid-19th century, the western powers had forced the Qing dynasty of China and Japan to open their doors and then asked the same of ...

People in China knew the Qing dynasty was under threat too. The Civil War period had done much harm and China’s defeat by Japan in the Sino-Japanese War of 1895 was a further shock. To China ...

In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, the raw materials from Northeast China were the ones used in imperial meals. The eating habits and cooking of the Manchu nationality dominated the imperial ...

The imperial food served within the walls of the Forbidden City by the Qing Dynasty had an important ... were the greatest of all the dynasties in China.

The Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties were built between 1368 and 1915 AD in Beijing Municipality, Hebei Province, Hubei Province, Jiangsu Province and Liaoning Province of China. They ...

In the early 1930s, before Japanese forces swept across China, Palace Museum authorities packed up many pieces - including imperial thrones ... are from the former Qing court, the Taiwan museum ...

China's transition from the 19th century into the 20th century was marked by many of the same trends that were bringing about change in the rest of the world. Politically, the battles for imperial ...