On October 16, 1967, I stood before the throne in the Forbidden City, gazing up at the seat from which emperors once surveyed their empire. Tomorrow, Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing dynasty, will ...

Emperor Qianlong, the 18th-century ruler whose reign marked the period's height of territorial advantages and cultural confidence. With a slight gesture, he invites his guests to step into the garden ...

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 ...

Beginning royal life as a low-ranking concubine, Cixi controlled Qing-dynasty China for nearly half a century from behind 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 ...

A Patek Philippe watch owned by the last emperor of China’s Qing dynasty, and worn through his five years as a captive of the Soviets in Siberia, will come to auction later this year. Based on similar ...

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 vintage watch usually comes with a good backstory, but the provenance of this particular Patek Philippe is truly extraordinary. The watch in question once belonged to Aisin-Giro Puyi, the last ...

Carvings on cracked and faded furniture reveal it to be honour board recognising ancestor's high mark in provincial imperial ...