December 1, 1922 was the wedding day for China's last emperor Aisin-Gioro Puyi. Seventeen yearold beauty Wan Rong was wed to him as the last empress in China's history.

In response, Emperor Qianlong lamented in his article on Lamas that the reincarnations of grand Lamas seemed to have come from one family, which is almost the same as a hereditary title.

Historical records show that five emperors of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)-Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing and Guangxu-visited the ancient town. Emperor Kangxi once left his handwriting on ...

While the central burial mound of Emperor Qin Shi Huang remains sealed, the surrounding discoveries continue to redefine what ...

China’s last emperor, Puyi ascended to the Qing dynasty throne at age three, only to be stripped of his title three years later, after the Wuchang uprising that triggered the 1911 revolution.

It's also the reason that the findings at the Hebosuo site were listed as one of the top 10 archaeological discoveries of ...

Archaeologists are terrified to open the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor who has been buried for 2,200 years. The tomb of Qin Shu Huang, who ruled from 221 BC to 210 BC, is guarded by a ...

4. SC-GR-285a is a print of a group of Han Chinese women. Genre/Form Glass negatives Scope and Contents Cixi (慈禧太后), Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908, Photographs. Forty-four glass plate negatives ...