The Silk Road provided a conduit not only for silk, but also offered a very important path...
China
Modern Taoists in China (and elsewhere) worship many gods at private altars and in public ceremonies which...
Westerners were a feature of late-19th-century China, albeit a much smaller presence than Thomson would have us...
Thomson’s photographic medium possessed qualities that draw the attention of viewers and lay claim to a degree...
Despite their common interests, relations between the foreigners and the Chinese community grew more tense during the...
Canton’s foreign quarter, sited between the city wall and the river, fit comfortably into the classic design...
The Kangxi emperor created a villa with gardens to the northwest of Beijing which was named the...
Chinese and foreign merchants developed a great deal of respect for each other. Not just anyone could...
The Yuanmingyuan was a paradise on earth for the Qing emperors. Introduction The Garden of Perfect Brightness—Yuanmingyuan...
The search for a commodity that the Chinese wanted to buy led the British to develop opium...
From early times China engaged in extensive trade relations with other countries, From early times China engaged...
“She killed her sister, butchered her elder brothers, murdered the ruler, poisoned her mother,” the chronicles say....
The late Qing (Manchu) dynasty to the fall of Imperial China. Mongolian Interlude By the mid-thirteenth century,...
The development of Chinese culture as it is still known today, via the Hundred Schools of Thought,...
Unlike the Western dragon of Europe that is representative of evil, the many eastern versions of the...