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.
Now the Chinese are also competing, especially for imperial, Qing-dynasty pieces, and prices have risen again sharply.
It is true that, under the ethnic-Manchu Qing dynasty, which fell in 1911, China ruled Mongolia cruelly.
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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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Yi Qing Chen, 49, of Rosemead, California, received the 300-month sentence from United States District Judge Dale S. Fischer.
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Not for painter Guan Wei, whose great-great-grandfather was the Comptroller of the Summer Palace for the last Qing empress.
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.
Jiang Qing was released on medical parole a decade after her trial (and within a few days was reported to have committed suicide).
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 film carefully avoids dwelling on the sweeping political reforms initiated by the final imperial dynasty, the Qing, which precipitated its own overthrow.
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.
Li Zehou, a Chinese intellectual, has stirred debate in recent years by arguing that China should have given the Qing reforms more of a chance.
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Like the Qing dynasty, the communists invaded Tibet on a pretext.
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