Along with 75-year-old Steve Serby and 74-year-old Larry Brooks, Mushnick is part of a holy trinity of snowy-haired ...

Llamas, ponchos, Machu Picchu and Paddington Bear, Peru is often encapsulated into cliches. But step beyond and you’ll ...

China’s last emperor, Puyi ascended to the Qing dynasty ... Zhao Jimin, deputy director of the Museum of the Imperial Palace of the Manchu State in Changchun, which co-organised the exhibit ...

There he was presented with delicate, imperial porcelains and dubbed “Grand Abbot of Ching-Chung Monastery,” traditional title bestowed by the Manchu Emperors on their favorite actors.

It wouldn’t be surprising if they’d Googled Fu Manchu’s equipment rundown on one of those websites ... It’s like a jazzier Godspeed You! Black Emperor or something. Then it’s back to the business of ...

Known for exquisite porcelain production and expansive trade, the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) represents a period of Chinese imperial rule between the fall of the Mongol Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) and the ...

Emperor Chongzhen (1611-1644), sovereign of the “dragon throne,” faced two threats: one external, consisting of Manchu invaders pressing against his northern borders, and the other internal, ...

Continuing Mao's praise of the First Emperor, in 1974 the Party's leading journal ... Except for the extensive Mongol (1279–1368) and Manchu (1644–1911) dynasties, neither of them ethnically Chinese, ...

On 18th October 1860, British troops destroyed Peking’s ‘summer palace’ — so-called as it had served as a summer residence for the Chinese Manchu emperors. However, before the palace did meet its ...