13 h. ago Step Into China’s Imperial Glory: Why Beijing’s National Museum and Palace Museum Are Must

Step Into China’s Imperial Glory: Why Beijing’s National Museum and Palace Museum Are Must-Sees  Travel And Tour World

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1 week ago Beijing’s Forbidden City Celebrates 100 Years as a Palace Museum: Special Exhibition Unveils Masterpieces and Artifacts from China’s Imperial Past

Beijing’s Forbidden City Celebrates 100 Years as a Palace Museum: Special Exhibition Unveils Masterpieces and Artifacts from China’s Imperial Past  Travel And Tour World

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1 week ago How National Palace Museum’s anniversary became a Taiwan identity battleground

On October 10, 1925, the Forbidden City in Beijing became the Palace Museum. The massive complex of ancient imperial palaces that was home to the royalty of the Ming and Qing dynasties for centuries became a museum for the people. Today, there are four Palace Museums: the original in Beijing, the National Palace Museum in Taipei, with a Southern branch in Chiayi which opened in 2015, and the Hong Kong Palace Museum which opened in 2022. In this series, we explore the stories behind the centenary...

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1 week ago How wartime trek of China’s Palace Museum treasures binds national heritage

On October 10, 1925, the Forbidden City in Beijing became the Palace Museum. The massive complex of ancient imperial palaces that was home to the royalty of the Ming and Qing dynasties for centuries became a museum for the people. Today, there are four Palace Museums: the original in Beijing, the National Palace Museum in Taipei, with a Southern branch in Chiayi which opened in 2015, and the Hong Kong Palace Museum which opened in 2022. In this series, we explore the stories behind the centenary...

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1 week ago How thousands of relics travelled 10,000 miles to ‘protect Chinese identity’

On October 10, 1925, the Forbidden City in Beijing became the Palace Museum. The massive complex of ancient imperial palaces that was home to the royalty of the Ming and Qing dynasties for centuries became a museum for the people. Today, there are four Palace Museums: the original in Beijing, the National Palace Museum in Taipei, with a Southern branch in Chiayi which opened in 2015, and the Hong Kong Palace Museum which opened in 2022. In this series, we explore the stories behind the centenary...

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2 w. ago Qianlong Garden in Beijing’s Forbidden City reopens after 25

Qianlong Garden in Beijing’s Forbidden City reopens after 25-year conservation project  Wanderlust Travel Magazine

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2 w. ago Martin Powers on how imperial China’s politics inform Western societies

Martin Powers, professor emeritus at the University of Michigan, is a renowned art historian and sinologist specialising in the history of social justice in China. He is the author of four books (including two that won the Levenson Prize for best book in premodern Chinese studies) and numerous articles. His recent work, China and England: The Preindustrial Struggle for Justice in Word and Image, explores visual and verbal evidence of the English Enlightenment response to imperial China’s...

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2 w. ago Exclusive | Martin Powers on how imperial China’s politics inform Western societies

Exclusive | Martin Powers on how imperial China’s politics inform Western societies  South China Morning Post

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2 w. ago Open Questions | Martin Powers on how imperial China’s politics inform Western societies

Open Questions | Martin Powers on how imperial China’s politics inform Western societies  South China Morning Post

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2 w. ago US records shed light on Western victims of Japan’s WWII human experiments

Sapphire Dingler was shaken as the dark past emerged before her. Dingler, a US master’s student in public history at Southern New Hampshire University, was sifting through newly digitised American archives when she stumbled upon testimony about a Japanese doctor’s grisly wartime experiments on Western prisoners in Tokyo. The doctor was Hisakichi Tokuda, a young and ambitious physician inspired by Unit 731, an imperial Japanese Army base in northern China infamous for biological warfare and...

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3 w. ago Hong Kong Palace Museum to feature 100 textiles celebrating Chinese silk culture

The Hong Kong Palace Museum will showcase 100 pieces of textiles highlighting Chinese silk culture, the first major exhibition of its kind in the city in recent years. The exhibition, “A History of China in Silk: The Chris Hall Collection at the Hong Kong Palace Museum”, is part of a nearly 3,000-piece collection from Hong Kong-based collector Chris Hall and will run from National Day on Wednesday to April 6 next year. It is one of the world’s most comprehensive and important collections of...

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