Until the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, this sprawling complex was the seat of Chinese government.
Qianlong greatly expanded the Qing Dynasty, making China perhaps the wealthiest country on earth.
Get a feel for Yi minority life in a Qing Dynasty village before it disappears.
The Yuan dynasty was founded by the Mongols, the Qing dynasty by the Manchus.
The gallery boasts a dazzling array of timepieces, many of which were gifts to the Qing emperors from abroad.
While Abraham Lincoln was confronted with a single military challenge, the Qing had to contend with several.
By the Qing Dynasty there were 2, 000 hutong, and by the 1950s that total had almost trebled.
Remember that the Qing dynasty, with all its inherited rituals, survived into the first decade of this century.
In Sanjiazi, descendants of the Manchu troops who settled the village during the Qing period outnumbered Han residents.
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When the Qing dynasty fell in 1911, former palace chefs set up restaurants around Beijing and brought the dish to the public.
But his judgment failed in his later years, and the Qing began a decline that led to its eventual demise.
Wu Yuanfeng, a government archivist, says 2m out of 10m Qing documents in the country's collection are written in Manchu.
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Often molded into deities, the tiny pieces became particularly popular during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), when they were collected by the nobility.
About 220 kilometers south of Kunming, Tuanshan is the country's only intact traditional walled Qing village where the Yi people still live.
Those friars who followed Matteo Ricci into China brought with them the technology that mesmerized the Ming and Qing courts--clocks, celestial globes, telescopes.
For most of the Qing Dynasty (1644 to 1912), Kinmen had grown wealthy with trade, and clan competed with clan to display status via their homes.
The prime-time blockbuster on CCTV this year was Yongzheng Dynasty, a 44-part docu-drama on the life of a cruel but reform-minded Qing dynasty emperor.
Fourteen Ming and 10 Qing emperors called the Forbidden City home and the intrigue, scandal and drama that went on here has inspired countless films and books.
The emperor resided in the Palace of Heavenly Purity until the mid-Qing dynasty when it became an audience hall in which ambassadors and other luminaries were received.
Before 1990, Suzhou was a beautiful tourist town, the home of many garden villas that were the summer homes of Ming and Qing Dynasty officials.
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Stone architecture dating to the Ming and Qing dynasties (which ruled from 1368 to 1912) stands perfectly preserved 40m under Qiandao Lake in Zhejiang province, 400km south of Shanghai.
Such literati painting became emblematic of Chinese culture, and several works in the last gallery attest to Dong's posthumous influence on the taste of Qing art patrons.
But that puts them in the same side of the draw as Tian Qing and Zhao Yunlei, a Chinese duo who are ranked No. 2 in the world.
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But that put them in the same side of the draw as Tian Qing and Zhao Yunlei, a Chinese duo who are ranked No. 2 in the world.
Both are from the Qing Dynasty, China's last imperial dynasty.
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In 1784, our founding father, George Washington, commissioned the Empress of China, a ship that set sail for these shores so that it could pursue trade with the Qing Dynasty.
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The other main character is Liang Qichao, a leading Chinese intellectual in the twilight of the last imperial dynasty, the Qing, and the chaotic early years after it fell in 1911.
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