Yet for those seeking to understand the perilous politics of the region today, there is no better place to start than the First Sino-Japanese War, which pitted China’s fading Qing Dynasty ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The Qing dynasty lasted over 250 years. China had been ruled by emperors from other dynasties for over two thousand ...

Brutal combat ensues, but the crucial developments occur off the battlefield: Pang must persuade the Qing war council to accept the outlaws as soldiers, and he must find a way to swallow his own ...

The Qing Dynasty in China ... The leaders of the Taiping Rebellion, perhaps the bloodiest civil war in human history, were all such failed elite-wannabes. Thirdly, the state's financial burden ...

A pair of jars purchased as part of a batch of ceramics from a London thrift store for £20 ($25) sold for almost 3,000 times that after they were found to date back to the Qing dynasty.