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In this video I talk about the history of the island of Taiwan, from its early days with Native & initial Chinese settling, ...
Narrator: The Qing dynasty was the last imperial dynasty in China. It began in 1644 when the Manchu people from the North overthrew the ruling Ming dynasty and established their capital in Beijing ...
Met zijn prachtige tuinen en vele gebouwen (met bijna 10.000 kamers vol meubels en kunstwerken) is het een waardevolle getuigenis van de Chinese beschaving gedurende de Ming en Qing dynastieën. Het ...
L’extension ajoute trois tombes impériales de la dynastie Qing à Liaoning aux tombes Ming inscrites en 2000 et 2003. Les trois tombes impériales de la dynastie Qing dans la province de Liaoning ...
Chinese communities in Asia and elsewhere traditionally celebrate Qing Ming, which falls on April 4 this year, by going with their families to clean the tombs and graves of their ancestors.
The mixture of Ming and Qing period artifacts could indicate they were salvaged from a trading vessel, possibly Dutch, he said. Or, they came from more than one wreck.
A pair of jars found bought for £20 ($25) at a London thrift store sold at for almost 3,000 times that after they were identified as rare 18th-century ceramics.