But for some donning the historic threads, they are a display with political undertones: a celebration of Han traditions and a rejection of the “foreign” Qing, China’s last imperial dynasty whose ...

Experts believe the marble sculptures guarded an imperial residence before they were taken by Japanese invaders in the early ...

In a speech on the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sun Yat-sen – seen by many as modern China’s founding father – President Xi Jinping pledged to “resolutely oppose” any attempt to divide the ...

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 ...

What looks like a simple karate gesture actually began as a hidden signal for rebels fighting to restore the Ming dynasty ...

South Korea on Thursday formally returned a pair of Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) stone lion statues to China, fulfilling a ...

A pair of Qing dynasty (1636–1912) stone lion statues, purchased by Kansong Chun Hyung-pil (1906–1962) at a 1930s Japanese ...