British Museum’s incredible Chinese history… China’s Hidden Century uses a remarkable variety of objects to illustrate life in the late Qing dynasty and remind…
Final decades of China’s Qing dynasty in focus… ‘China’s Hidden Century’, at London’s British Museum, uses a wide range of art and artefacts to tell the story of…
‘Unusual’ and ‘easy’ tests mark final stretch of… More than 31,000 candidates tackle last of remaining elective subjects including geography, physics and Chinese…
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China’s first nationwide elections were a flawed… Held in 1909 in a desperate attempt to safeguard the ailing Qing dynasty, China’s first nationwide elections were…
Inside Joseph Hotung’s long-hidden private… While much of Joseph Hotung’s collection of Chinese jades and Yuan and Ming dynasty porcelains is already on…
Giving mooncakes at Mid-Autumn a recent trend in… Mooncakes and Mid-Autumn Festival go together today, but it wasn’t always so. Tang and Song dynasty texts say they…