This exhibition is interesting in that instead of highlighting art, it is a look at the martial culture of the Qing court through weaponry, military equipment, scientific instruments, and more ...

The Art of Armaments exhibition is divided into six sections: "The Rise of the Eight Banners and Qing Rule," which introduces the Eight Banner system established by Nurhaci (1559-1626), founder of ...

The ninth entry in the Toei Fushigi Comedy Series. In a hidden realm ruled by a whimsical prince, a heroine's quest to rescue her ramen-transformed lover leads her to a quirky family in Tokyo ...

Research into an unusually high prevalence of a particular set of genes in China has suggested that 1.5 million Chinese men are direct descendants of Giocangga, the grandfather of the founder of the ...

Zhixin Luo, Binghamton University "Orphan and Widow, A Thousand Years of Sorrow”: The Funeral of Empress Dowager Longyu and the Politics of the Expression of Sorrow in the Early Republican China ...

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Hong Taiji was the son of Nurhaci, a Manchurian chieftain who, in 1618, announced a manifesto known as the Seven Grievances, which effectively waged war on the Mings.

A painting by unknown artist of Manchu leader Nurhaci. Someone needs to tell the BBC that China was a colony of the Manchu Empire under the Qing Dynasty. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons ...