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.
The Yuan dynasty was founded by the Mongols, the Qing dynasty by the Manchus.
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.
When the Qing dynasty fell in 1911, former palace chefs set up restaurants around Beijing and brought the dish to the public.
Often molded into deities, the tiny pieces became particularly popular during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), when they were collected by the nobility.
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.
Like the Qing dynasty, the communists invaded Tibet on a pretext.
The Communist government, borrowing its impulse from the reviled Manchus of the Qing dynasty, wants once and for all to hammer down the borders of its supersized empire.
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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These stubborn bastions also protected a thriving ancient town, its lanes lined with lavish mansions, temples and even banks dating from the period when Pingyao was the financial capital of the Qing Dynasty.
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Sun Yat-sen overthrew the Qing Dynasty.
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By the Qing dynasty (1644 to1912), many Huizhou men had consolidated their capital to open a string of pawnshops in major cities such as Beijing, and they funnelled their profits home to fund the construction of lavish residences for their wives and children.
The film carefully avoids dwelling on the sweeping political reforms initiated by the final imperial dynasty, the Qing, which precipitated its own overthrow.
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.
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.
It is true that, under the ethnic-Manchu Qing dynasty, which fell in 1911, China ruled Mongolia cruelly.
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He is widely assumed to be the Peabody Essex's biggest donor among his gifts, according to published reports, was the purchase, importation and restoration of a complete Qing dynasty merchant's house, which sits on the museum grounds as it was in southeastern China in the 1980s.
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.
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.
Now the Chinese are also competing, especially for imperial, Qing-dynasty pieces, and prices have risen again sharply.
By the mid-1860s Qing officials sometimes felt that the Muslim Rebellion on China's western frontier posed as great a threat to the dynasty's survival as the Taiping Uprising.
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