IT'S a good time to be a Manchu on television. Costume dramas such as “Palace” and “Bu Bu Jing Xin”, which feature modern-day protagonists flung back in time to the days of the Qing emperors, rank ...

Visitors walk past a red figured satin Jifu, an auspicious clothing of Emperor Kangxi, in a mall in east China's Shanghai Municipality on May 5, 2011. A special "Dragon Robe Exhibition" was recently ...

Chinese archeologists have found a mausoleum of 11 imperial concubines of Emperor Huangtaiji, the second emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), in northern Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province.

BEIJING, China (AP) — In Beijing’s Forbidden City, once the sprawling palace to China’s Ming and Qing emperors and their legions of guards and servants, steady streams of visitors wearing historical ...

THE three Qing emperors who reigned for 133 years, until 1795, were among the greatest rulers ever. Under their influence, China's empire doubled in size, becoming one of the most powerful and ...

Photo taken on Oct. 6, 2009 shows porcelains of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) displayed during a preview of an exhibition about Emperor Yongzheng (1678-1735) of the Qing Dynasty in Taipei, southeast ...

The Ming and Qing imperial tombs are natural sites modified by human influence, carefully chosen according to the principles of geomancy (Fengshui) to house numerous buildings of traditional ...

A PATEK Philippe watch worn by the last emperor of China’s Qing Dynasty was sold for HK$40 million (S$6.9 million) Tuesday (May 23) at a live auction in Hong Kong. The auction, which lasted about ...

A Patek Philippe watch owned by the last emperor of China’s Qing dynasty, and worn through his five years as a captive of the Soviets in Siberia, will come to auction later this year. Based on similar ...

Access to this vast complex of grand palaces, abundant gardens, and sacred pavilions was off limits to most of imperial China's people, who could only imagine the grandeur beyond the gates. Hall of ...