A newly translated book explores how international residents have shaped and recorded life in China’s ancient capital for ...

The umbrella on display was given to Lieutenant Thomas Walsh, at the end of World War I, by members of the Chinese Labour ...

In 1706, at the height of the Chinese Rites Controversy, the Kangxi Emperor appointed two Jesuit missionaries, Fathers Antonio de Barros and Antoine de Beauvollier, as his special envoys to Rome.

especially the Han Chinese. For example, in the 53rd year of Kangxi’s reign (1714), he gave a “1,000 Elders’ Banquet” at the palace to celebrate his 60th birthday and the peaceful times ...

Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) Emperor Kangxi and his grandson Emperor Qianlong, who are credited with ushering in a golden age in Chinese history, appeared disinterested in this approach. Instead ...