“From the Yuan dynasty to the Qing dynasty, Beijing was the political ... high-level cultural exchanges between China and the West were always strictly limited to the capital, sometimes just to the ...

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.

Woodblock painting celebrates a history of more than a millennium in China. Traditionally, when Spring Festival came, Chinese ...

Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) Emperor Kangxi and his ... from summer heat and was located strategically on a pass between the capital, present-day Beijing, and nomadic groups to the north.

Fujian and Beijing without leaving the capital. During the Qing Dynasty, restaurants were classed by names. Those ending with“Tang”were of the first grade; “Lou”and“Ju,”serving feudal ...

that established its capital, Dadu, in the northern part. The property also features later historical structures built during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and improved during the Qing Dynasty ...