Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Narrator: The Qing dynasty was the last imperial dynasty in China. It began in 1644 when the Manchu people from the ...

They did this because the Chinese character shan (meaning meal ... In its early years, the Qing Dynasty had a tea kitchen (for tea with milk), a clear tea kitchen (for plain tea), and meal ...

During China's Qing Dynasty, a fearsome female pirate queen ... She was also the inspiration behind the character Mistress Ching, one of the nine pirate lords in The Pirates of the Caribbean.

The storied imperial painting The Blue Goats, which was commissioned by the Qing dynasty emperor Qianlong in the late 1750s, will lead the house’s upcoming Asian Art Week in Hong Kong in a ...

The Imperial Palace of the Qing Dynasty in Shenyang consists of 114 buildings constructed between 1625–26 and 1783. It contains an important library and testifies to the foundation of the last dynasty ...