After spending the past three weeks on display in Beijing, a 259-year-old map of Taiwan is to go under the hammer, an auction house in the capital said on Friday. The "Complete Map of Taiwan Province ...

Michael Benoist, a French Jesuit, was commissioned by the Qing court to create “Great Universal Geographic Map (Kun Yu Quan Tu).” On the basis of “Geographic Map of The Empire (Huang Yu Quan Tu)” and ...

A world map dating back to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) was lately found in a museum of Shijiazhuang, which is quite different from other world maps because it takes Beijing as the first meridian ...

In the late Qing Dynasty of ancient China, the city of Tianjin was also influenced by the Restoration of 1898. The Great Qing Dynasty declined. Tang Qing Shan was also influenced by the new thoughts; ...

Yet it would be a mistake to see Chinese culture as monolithic and unchanging, says Nathan Woolley, China scholar and curator of Celestial Empire: Life in China 1644-1911. This exhibition at the ...

After spending the past three weeks on display in Beijing, a 259-year-old map of Taiwan is to go under the hammer, an auction house in the capital said on Friday. The "Complete Map of Taiwan Province ...